Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Lesson: Re Shaping Narrative Writing
This lesson, inspired by the novel Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes is a fabulous classroom mentor text that helps teach a very powerful revision strategy: rewriting an idea in a completely different genre. Grimes' book shares short...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Contains plans for seven lessons that teach young scholars about the plot structure, character, and setting of the mystery genre. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings
Teaching a book unit this year? It's a best practice to supplement book units with short passages from a variety of different genres. These 92 reading passages were handpicked by master teachers to supplement your book units. They...
Other
Education Oasis: Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Unit
A six to eight week unit about the genre of memoir. Students will see that writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives and will be encouraged to reflect upon the significance of remembered events. Students will keep a...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: Improving Society
Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading
This resource provides a collection of free downloadable graphic organizers. These graphic organizers address the following categories: character webs, responding to literature, reading analysis, story maps, cognitive bookmarks, and...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Young scholars will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading....
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Real and Make Believe
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students classify and categorize based on real and make-believe.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Many Parts
Preparation for reading complex informational texts starts in K and First grade. Knowing the features of the genre, and how to navigate through it is one of the necessary stepping stones. This instructional activity introduces the...
British Library
British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
British Library
British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Gender, Behaviour & Etiquette
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
British Library
British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Education
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
British Library
British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Crime & Punishment
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Learning Musical Elements Through Listening
This is a site created for teaching children the art of listening to music. Includes sections on the elements of music, composers, and genres with more under construction.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Musical Travels for Children
A series of lesson plans geared toward elementary students. These lessons explore various musical cultures such as Germanic music, Korean songs, Ugandan music and Mexican music. You can use all of the lessons or simply choose which ones...
TES Global
Tes: Twelfth Night: Powerpoint Lesson on Comedy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show lesson focuses on the jester, Feste the fool, in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night and includes the role of a jester in society and activities.
TES Global
Tes: Commedia Dell'arte Character Introduction
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show introduces the major stock characters in Commedia Dell'Arte, a form of theatre characterized by masked "types," improvised dialogue, and a cast of colorful stock characters which began...
TES Global
Tes: Commedia Dell'arte and Stock Characters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on Commedia Dell'Arte and stock characters including a close activity on Commedia Dell'Arte, a definition of stock characters with examples, modern day stock characters, and...
TES Global
Tes: The Hundred Years' War
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource focuses on The Hundred Years' War between England and France; it includes lesson plans and activities about the war and the importance of the Henry V's victory in The Battle of Agincourt...
TES Global
Tes: Frankenstein Comic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This English Language Learner resource provides visual supports to accompany Mary Shelley's classic book Frankenstein. This resource can also be used to introduce young readers to this classic horror...
Apple
I Tunes Store for Podcasts
Both students and teachers can find podcasts that can be subscribed to, or downloaded to a computer or any MP3 playing device. Most are free and those that carry a fee are clearly marked. The best place to start is under the Education...
British Library
British Library: Bronte's Wuthering Heights: Fantasy and Realism
Students will consider the two elements of fantasy and realism that combine to create the compelling narrative in Wuthering Heights (1847). In this activity, students will explore the significance of nature within the narrative, its...
British Library
British Library: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Discovering Literature
Uncover 19th-century connections from Darwin to Jack the Ripper, play a Gothic genre word game, and examine how the novel has been depicted in illustrations, book covers and photographs. [PDF]
British Library
British Library: Gothic Words Activity
This lesson could be used either as a starter activity for creative writing with a class that has been studying the Gothic genre for a few lessons or as an introductory task at the beginning of a topic to establish prior knowledge.
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