Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is
Students will focus on Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Identifying supporting details and Organizing details. Students will read a variety of Informational Text (non-fiction) to understand how stated and implied main idea effect the...
Read Works
Read Works: Fifth Grade: Five Lesson Unit: Leaf by Leaf: Autumn Poems
[Free Registration/Login Required] A five lesson poetry unit focusing on main idea, tone, theme, author's purpose, and figurative language in poetry. Texts must be provided by the teacher, but handouts that go along with the lesson are...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation
This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Anne Frank, the Writer
An online exhibition about Anne Frank that focuses on her writing. Plenty of pictures, and translations of her writing, as well as transcripts of interviews with video clips.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Introduction
This is an introduction to a Restoration and Eighteenth Century, which ranges from the Restoration of King Charles II to the turn of the 19th century. The essential questions for the unit focuses on how the events of the period...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Self Selected Drama
This unit focuses on the students selecting a play to read and study from an extensive list provided. A link to key drama terms is provided. Student read and respond to their selected text, learn the vocabulary, and take a quiz.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Sudden Impact Teaching Guide [Pdf]
When her friend is hospitalized after a soccer game, Tina helps find a donor match for his rare blood type. But then the donor himself is in an accident. This teacher's guide for Sudden Impact by Lesley Choyce includes a book summary,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: Written in Bone
This unit focuses on learning the stories of our past. Students will explore various texts (literary and informational) and their unique perspectives on history to consider how different experiences offer a different historical...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Southern Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is featured in this biography highlighting her literary contributions which focused on African Americans as whole people, celebrating their heritage, in an era when black authors tended to write about their...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
This lesson is part of a week-long unit. It focuses on the pre-reading phase of guided reading. It aims to activate prior knowledge, preview vocabulary, and set a purpose for reading. This book deals with a very sensitive issue that most...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Corduroy Lesson Plan
This ReadWriteThink lesson features an opportunity for students to respond to literature through writing journals about "Corduroy," by Don Freeman. This idea could be used with other books as well.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Lesson Exchange for Corduroy
This site is an online lesson plan exchange on "Corduroy" by Don Freeman.