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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Responding to Literature Forms

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers including a book critique form, response journals, adding an ending, and book log.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: It Doesn't Have to End That Way

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Literary response and prediction are the focus of this lesson plan. Knowing story structure is an important skill for literary analysis, and this gives teachers a way to help learners develop this skill. Includes links to web resources,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Bad Case of Bullying: Using Literature Response Groups

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for three lessons that use "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon to start student discussion in literature response groups and to prevent bullying. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Writing About Literature (Fiction)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Graffiti Wall: Discussing and Responding to Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
New ways of thinking about text, collaboration with group members, and presentation skills are all developed with this instructional activity which could be applied to almost any novel read in class. Includes student handouts, an online...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Outside Reading Made Fun

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to an "Outside Reading Made Fun" unit in which students select a book to read for pleasure, write journal questions, write an analytical essay, create a book project, and participate in a book discussion.
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Read Works

Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit

For Teachers 5th Standards
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Bridging Literature and Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing an Opinion in Response to the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. In this instructional activity, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: A Literature of Democracy [Pdf]

For Teachers 11th
In this lesson, 11th graders explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his call for literature that was uniquely American. They then consider how Emerson would have responded to writings by Henry Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: 103 Things to Do Before/during/after Reading

For Students K - 1st Standards
The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
This is a nine-page PDF entitled "How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay" which explains in detail the parts of a literary analysis and how to write them.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Letters From Rifka

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this 3rd through 5th grade lesson, students read the book Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse and write responses as Tovah to three of Rifka's letters in their journal.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach & the People Could Fly

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Comparing and contrasting works and looking for underlying themes and messages are at the heart of this multicultural lesson plan. Provides links to several background resources, and suggestions for assessment.
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Rick Beach

Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Understanding Adolescents

For Teachers 5th - 9th
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 2 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 2. Young adult...
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Other

Suny: Conventions of Writing Papers About Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A professor's excellent explanation of how to write a professional sounding essay. Covers all aspects of an essay, and detailed examples give information on exactly how to write the essay.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: American Literature: Reader Response Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on reader-response literary criticism including the purpose of reader response, the structure of a reader-response essay, how to criticize with examples, and an example of a reader-response essay using "The Secret...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Judging and Reacting: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the critical reading techniques of making judgments and forming reactions about what they read. Explanations are given about drawing conclusions, responding to literature, and making...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will listen to a book, A My Name Is by Alice Lyne, and they will learn about alliteration and alliterative words. After reading the book, students will use print and online resources to brainstorm their own...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Beowulf" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduce yourself to Anglo-Saxon literature by reading "Beowulf" and exploring its plot, themes, and characters with the help of this study guide. Check out a helpful "family tree" of the epic poem's characters, study new vocabulary...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Night" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource for students reading Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night," complete with an author biography, vocabulary lists, brainstorming activities, and thought-provoking writing prompts linked to specific chapters. After reading "Night,"...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Before reading the book, check out an author biography, vocabulary, and pre-reading activities and questions. Also, use the guide's...

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