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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with timelines in connection to nonfiction reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Pandas and Other Endangered Species

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information included in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #48: A Perfect Time for Pandas by Mary Pope Osborne. The book Pandas and Other Endangered Species, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and...
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide for the nonfiction book A Hope In the Unseen by Ron Suskind including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Stalin: A Brutal Legacy Uncovered

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with A Brutal Legacy Uncovered" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Do We Hate Love?

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Why Do We Hate Love?" by Robert Firestone, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Serving in Florida: Excerpt From Nickle and Dimed

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Serving in Florida" Excerpt from Nickle and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Excerpt From the Prince

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with " Excerpt from The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Three Types of Friendship" Excerpt From the Nicomachean Ethics

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "Three Types of Friendship"--Excerpt from the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Curse of the Inability to Imagine

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "The Curse of the Inability to Imagine" by Tania Lombrozo, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: America's Shifting Views on Immigration

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "America's Shifting Views on Immigration" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: On Revenge

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "On Revenge" by Sir Francis Bacon, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Bill of Rights" by James Madison

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
A learning module that begins with "The Bill of Rights" by James Madison, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Political Society

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Political Society" by John Locke, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Fugitive Slave Act of 1793" by The United States Congress, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Evaluate the role of diction and tone in literary nonfiction such as speeches, essays, and other forms.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or diary and a fictional adaptation of it.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Lobo, the King of Currumpaw

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw" by Ernest Seton Thompson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpt From Ch. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Excerpt from Ch. 1" by Frederick Douglass, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: The Space Race Is Over

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Space Race Is Over" by Paul Kingsnorth, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Life of Julius Caesar" by David White

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Life of Julius Caesar" by David White, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Introduction to the Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Introduction to the Vietnam War" by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...