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British Library

British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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Activity
British Council

Learn English Kids: Story Maker

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site is a story maker; students choose from three types of stories: fairy tale, horror story, or science fiction. They follow the directions choosing from pictures and typing in words. Then the complete story is finished and they...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Retelling Is Fun!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The purpose of this lesson is to get students involved with retelling activities, including writing a narrative and dramatic play.
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Activity
Other

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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Activity
BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.
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Website
Other

Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
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Article
New York Times

New York Times: 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow

For Students 1st - 9th
If you don't know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it's easy to write off some modern energy innovations like solar panels because they haven't hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of...
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Curated OER

Writing Fix: Fairy Tales in New Settings: Buba, the Cowboy Prince

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The front cover of the book Bubba, The Cowboy Prince by Helen Ketteman.
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Handout
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Edmund Spenser

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided by the University of Toronto. Index of poetry of Edmund Spenser, with links to each. Many poems include explanatory notes.
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Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Lewis Carroll Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

For Students 9th - 10th
Here, read all 25 chapters of Lewish Carroll's "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded."

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