CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

A collection of images from the period of the Great Depression to World War II provide students with visual references as they read and examine Katherine Paterson's novel, "Jacob Have I Loved." Lesson encourages critical thinking about...

In this novel, Louise dreams of leaving her tiny island home in Chesapeake Bay, but first she must escape the shadow of her twin sister who seems to rob her of everything. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "Jacob...

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "As by the Dead We Love to Sit", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Mark Eckardt and can access a printable version of this piece.

A video of the book "Guess How Much I Love You", written by Sam McBratney, and illustrated by Anita Jeram. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

A video of the book "I Love You Blue Kangaroo", written by Emma Clark. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "If I Should Cease to Bring a Rose", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jeff Kiok and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "My River Runs to Thee--", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Mark Eckardt and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Perhaps You'd Like to Buy a Flower", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Bobby Allen and can access a printable version of this piece.

"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

"I Like Plants" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about a person who loves plants and became a botanist; now she teaches her college students about plants and ecology. It is followed by constructed-response questions...

A poem from Rupert Brooke, "Day That I Have Loved", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Bobby Allen and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from William Blake's Songs of Experience, "The Garden of Love", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Scott Becker and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Love is Anterior to Life", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Jena Johnson and can access a printable version of this piece.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary critic, and a founder of the Romantic Movement in England, as well as a major influence on American transcendentalism. The following poem is, as the title suggests, the...

This lesson allows students to explore color - both in literal and figurative terms. Students will read books about color, discuss the emotion involved with color, and incorporate color metaphors to write poems using the graphic...

Students will experience what life was like for many soldiers during World War I by studying Trench Warfare. They will gain this understanding through pictures, first person audio accounts, and reading poetry from the war. Students will...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...

"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...

Find close readings, critical interpretations, and personal responses to the works of key 20th-century playwrights and practitioners, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney, and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

A poem from Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Sam Adelson and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "'They Have Not Chosen Me,' He Said", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Mark Eckardt and can access a printable version of this piece.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Heart! We Will Forget Him!", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Ellie Wen and can access a printable version of this piece.