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[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a nonfiction text.
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Read Works: Lessons: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students how to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that a biography tells the story of a person's life.
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Read Works: Little Red Riding Hood
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students about fairy tales and fantasy details.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of George Washington
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people who are famous or important.
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Read Works: Lessons: The Story of Ruby Bridges
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people and give information about their lives.
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Tes: Shakespeare: Richard Iii Resource Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is resource material for teaching Shakespeare's Richard III including activities and writing assignments. They focus on how Richard manipulates Lady Anne and Queen Elizabeth to get what he wants.
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Tes: Shakespeare and Imperial Rome
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ideas bank from the British Museum provides background information about Rome throughout the years and the connections to Shakespeare's works making it a good resource for cross-curricular...
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Tes: Genre: Ancient Greek Theatre: Comedy and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show with images and information about Ancient Greek Theatre including the masks used for comedies and tragedies.
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British Library: Teaching Resources: Measure for Measure: A Problem Play?
What is Measure for Measure's problem? The play confronts us with questions about sex, morality, and power, which challenge us as readers and audiences. In these activities, young scholars will debate why the play is so problematic,...
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Mc Graw Hill: How to Use Strategies to Teach Students to Access Complex Texts
In this short video, the strategies of summarizing, clarifying, and asking-answering questions are used. These instructional tools will help teachers show students how to access complex texts. [5:54] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10
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Pbs Learning Media: The Hound of the Baskervilles 1: Meet Sherlock Holmes
Students investigate the iconic and much-beloved character of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the mystery genre, in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2002 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. As students are introduced to Holmes, they use...
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Pbs: American Roots Music
If teaching a unit about the history of popular music in America, this PBS web site supporting their four-part TV broadcast of a few years ago would make a great resource. Includes lesson plans and oral histories too.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur Conan Doyle Collection
Investigate the iconic character of Sherlock Holmes, as well as the mystery/horror genre that Arthur Conan Doyle helped to develop, by examining the film adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles." The collection includes three media...
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Pbs Kids Go: Chuck Vanderchuck "Something Something" Explosion!
Interactive site that teaches kids about jazz, jazz instruments, and writing jazz music. Includes games,videos, and lots of great sounds.
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Ad lit.org: Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning
Engaging all students in a themed study or unit is a challenge that teachers can resolve by using materials that match students' independent or instructional reading levels (Robb 1994, 2000). When students face textbooks that are above...
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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Classifying Texts
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson...
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Science Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy by Jane Yolen to learn about the characteristics that define science fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided...
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Tes: Schemes of Work: Prose. Ghost Stories
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of 13 lessons explores the horror/ghost film genre. Students will culminate the study by writing their own ghost stories.
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Tes: Analyzing & Comparing Non Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] Resource notes to aid students as they analyze different types of nonfiction. The GAP (genre, audience, and purpose) acronym is provided to use when comparing nonfiction texts.
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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Purposes for Reading
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Urban Education: Exchange: Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Fantasy
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which young scholars use the book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg and fantasy texts from the classroom library to learn about the characteristics that define fantasy. Lesson includes direct...
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Better Lesson: The Leprechaun Companion
In this lesson, 5th graders will explain the meaning of a text and its genre, summarize it, and draw conclusions. They work with a book called The Leprechaun Companion which is a cross between informational and literary text.
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Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Realistic Fiction
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Allie's Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber to learn about the characteristics that define realistic fiction. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice,...
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