National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Genre Study of Letter With the Jolly Postman
In this instructional activity outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
The complete text of Hawthorne's classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support material which focuses on...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
This collection uses primary sources to explore The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Super Why: Letter Sounds Worksheet [Pdf]
An excellent resource for teaching beginning letter-sound correspondence. Student must identify the object in the picture and circle the letter that begins the word.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: The Basic Business Letter
This lesson from Purdue's online writing lab details both the parts of a business letter and the various formats for one, including block, modified block, and semi-block. Great resource for getting started writing a professional letter.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "The Scarlet Letter" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Teacher guide for "The Scarlet Letter" commences with excellent introductory information, synopsis, commentary, and pertinent biographical/historical resources. Questions cover themes, language, characters, setting, symbolism, etc....
Free Reading
Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor
Contains plans for four lessons that teach learners how to write letters to the editor, including what one is, a review of persuasive writing and letter format, and the importance of writing many drafts. In addition to objectives and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Letter to Me
After reading song lyrics to Brad Paisley's "A Letter to Me" and the personal essay "A Letter to My Younger Self" by Brian Elroy, students write a poem, lyric, or letter from George Washing to his younger self. Then students write a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: A Character?s Letter to the Editor
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to write letters to the editor from the points of view of characters in books they have read. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Job Search Writing: Cover Letters
The first in a series of guidelines about writing and formatting cover letters.
PBS
Arthur: Letter Writer Helper
This interactive site gives examples of how to write a letter, an email, a postcard, and a greeting card. It even explains how to address an envelope. As students roll their mouse over the letter it explains what each part is called and...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Writing Cover Letters
Offers a tutorial on writing a cover letter, including sections on the format, what to include in a cover letter, organization, and questions to guide your writing.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Where Do You See Letters?
A book about letters in the world around us. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: My Name Is a Word and Is Made Up of Letters
Students will discover that names are made up of letters and will be able to identify their name and write it in a sentence. This lesson includes links to an Alphafriends video, pictures of student work, and videos of the lesson in action.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Letter From Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
While in jail, King responded in a letter written on the margins of a newspaper, because it was the only paper available. King gave the letter to his lawyers, who published what is now known as the famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail."...
Curated OER
History Matters: Making Sense of Letters & Diaries
"Making Sense of of Letters & Diaries," explores the historical importance of various types of "personal texts." Learn the general characteristics of personal texts and read various online diaries and letters of historical...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Many Letters?
Can you remember all of your ABC's? Computers need to "remember" letters too. Every time we use a computer to write a story, the computer needs to "remember" the letters in the story by saving them to the computer's memory as a file. In...
Other
Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Letters From Emily Dickinson
Excellent lesson plan in which students study and analyze the letters that Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson and to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, as a method of understanding her poetry in a deeper sense....
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University: Letters of Philip Ii 1592 1597
View original and translations of primary source documents signed by the Spanish king Philip II written during Spain's struggle with its English, French and Dutch enemies in the waters of Western Europe with this resource. These letters...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Darwin's Letters: Collecting Evidence
This group of letters is a sample of the extensive correspondence Darwin carried on with a wide group of friends and colleagues as he collected evidence to support his theory of evolution by natural selection. From Charles Darwin's...
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