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Orca Book Publishers: Runaway Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In Runaway, a novel by Becky Citra, a boy must make some difficult decisions about whether to help another boy that he has seen steal but who is also being physically abused. The story is set in the 1830s in Upper Canada. This teacher's...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Rescue Pup Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Rescue Pup, a novel by Jean Little, follows the experiences of a seeing-eye dog named Shakespeare who helps a young girl learn to love others. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on...
Other
Twelfth Night Revision
This entire site is dedicated to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," and it contains a wealth of resources for the Shakespearean comedy. In addition to summaries of each act, it contains interactive quizzes over the entire play, the...
University of Sydney (Australia)
The University of Sydney: The Write Site: Unit 1: Sentence Fragments
A learning module with three lessons, four practice exercises, and a summary designed to teach what sentence fragments are and how they can be corrected.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Summary of "Writing Next"
What does research tell us about effective teaching techniques to help adolescents develop their writing skills? This article summarizes Writing Next, a 2007 study of adolescent writing instruction.
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Beowulf Lesson Plans
These teaching notes for Beowulf provide a model for your own lesson plan and as a basic resource to study Beowulf. These notes can help you remember the pertinent points of Anglo-Saxon epic poem and help to deepen your understanding.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 7 Tools for Literacy in the Digital Age
Summaries and links to 7 online tools to help in the language arts classroom including Kami, Unplag, Writinghouse, LightSail, No Red Ink, Write About, and Kahoot.
TES Global
Tes: The Tempest 2010 Film Guide
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide to the Into version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a mystical thriller with a modern twist (available free from intofilm.org). It provides a short summary, prereading and...
TES Global
Tes: The Merchant of Venice Teacher Support Pack by Ruth Sudlow
[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit lesson plan for teaching The Merchant of Venice includes act by act and scene by scene summaries, key quotations, activities, writing assignments, worksheets, and end of Act exams.
University of Pennsylvania
English Renaissance in Context: King Lear
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Jo's Triumph Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Jo's Triumph, a novel by British Columbia author Nikki Tate, follows the adventures of an orphan girl named Jo as she disguises herself as a boy and works for the Pony Express. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Plagiarism?
In this lesson, young scholars write summaries of researched information in their own words and quote text accurately.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Johnny Tremain
Come and discover more about the novel, "Johnny Tremain," by Esther Forbes. This site features a discussion guide, writing prompt, vocabulary builder, extension activity and more.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Golding
Web English Teacher site provides a variety of resources to assist in the teaching of William Golding's works.
Other
City of Literature Trust: Edinburgh: Projects: Kidnapped Activities
A collection of documents for exploring and teaching Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, including imagery from a graphic novel based on the historical fiction. Offers games, puzzles, and writing activities for students, posters and...