Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks
Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk
Learners will participate in a picture walk through the expository text "Seasons and Weather". The purpose of the picture walk is to prepare the students for reading the story and gives them practice in using picture clues to make...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Modern Dances and How to Dance Them: The Castle Walk
This resource describes the history of a dance callled the Castle Walk, which was popular in the early 1900's. Includes information on the orgins of the dance, as well as text and images from a dance manual of the period.
Arizona State University
Archaeological Research Institute: A Walking Tour of Plimouth Plantation
A visual exploration, supported by interpretive text, of Plymouth Plantation as it existed in the 1600s. Includes photographs of buildings, a wigwam, European and Native American clothing, and tools used.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Left, Right, Left: Our Safe Walk
Learn how to cross the street and train tracks safely in your neighborhood. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals: Who Walked Here?
Try to guess which animal left tracks on the ground. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish and Turkish, with text in English.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Walking for My Life
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...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Walking Down Park by Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni is one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement and has won numerous awards. Her work ranges from covering topics on race, gender, the African American experience and social issues to children's literature and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Why Walk?
This lesson plan engages students in reading activities related to James Marshall's book, Yummers. Students will analyze the diet of the main character and determine what made the character sick.
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Bird, Came Down the Walk
A learning module that begins with "A Bird, Came Down the Walk" by Emily Dickinson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Read Works
Read Works: Walking Tall
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ruby Bridges, the first African American to attend a Southern, all-white elementary school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Walking Tall
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ruby Bridges and her experience as the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Read Works
Read Works: When Fish First Walked
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural selection and its role in the theory of evolution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Gallery Walk (Carousel)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Country Walks of a Naturalist With His Children by W. Houghton
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. Houghton [1870], an illustrated novel describing ten country walks and what can be seen along the way.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Walks With Mamma O'er Hills and Dales by Myles Birke Foster
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Walks with Mamma O'er Hills and Dales by Myles Birke Foster [1870], a collection of tales and rhymes as they take walks with Mama.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost
[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site features the text and audio of the poem "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: How Do I Know? Walks and Talks With Uncle Merton by a.t. Elwes
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book How Do I Know? Walks and Talks with Uncle Merton by Alfred Thomas Elwes [1870], an illustrated novel.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sea Side Walks of a Naturalist by Rev. W. Houghton
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Seaside Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Rev. W. Houghton [1870], a book about marine natural history.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Walk and a Drive by Thomas Miller
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book A Walk and a Drive by Thomas Miller [1870], an illustrated children's novel.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Oxford Book of English Verse: "She Walks in Beauty"
Contains the text of Byron's famous poem, "She walks in Beauty."
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Walking Tour: Langston Hughes's Harlem of 1926
Walk in the footsteps of the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes in this online guided tour. Contains specific directions to navigate through Harlem to places he lived and visited regularly. With quotes from various works mentioning...
EL Education
El Education: A Historical Walk Through Massachusetts
This book was created by 3rd grade students from the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. A Historical Walk through Massachusetts was created as part of a learning expedition on colonial history. Through...
TES Global
Blendspace: Chapter 3: A Long Walk to Water
A nineteen-part learning module with links to images and texts to use while reading chapter 3 of Linda Sue Park's A long Walk to Water.