Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "What Do Zoos Do" by Amy Miller

For Students 6th - 8th
Today, zoos are not only for entertainment, but for education and action when it comes to saving species that are at risk of extinction. As you read, take notes on how zoos are contributing to preserving wildlife. [Free account...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Terror" by Junot Diaz

For Students 7th - 8th
A learning module that begins with the nonfiction story "The Terror" by Junot Diaz, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Anonymous

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the Anonymous author including the full text of the following: Forest & Frontiers; The Holy Bible, King James Version; Beowulf; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poetry and prose versions); and 11 short stories.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Reach for the Stars How I Became an Astronaut

For Students K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "How I Became an Astronaut: The Story of Stephanie D. Wilson." It provides a short biography of her childhood interests, her education, and training to become an astronaut.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: A Day in the Life of a Firefighter

For Students K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "A Day in the Life of a Firefighter" by Brandi Chase. It explains and shows what a day as a firefighter looks like including training and cooking meals as well as fighting fires. Children can listen to the...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dolphins Are Not Fish Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is the nonfiction interactive ebook "Dolphins Are Not Fish - Featuring the Bottlenose Dolphin." Children can read-along, listen to, or read this story independently.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Dinosaurs!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "Dinosaurs!" Children can read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "How Earthquakes Take Place" by Jessica Mc Birney

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "How Earthquakes Take Place" by Jessica McBirney, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Rainbow, Rainbow

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on the colors in the rainbow. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Pumpkin, Pumpkin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on pumpkin. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Penguin, Penguin

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on penguins. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Things That Can Go

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on things that can go. Children can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence read to them.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: A House in a Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on animals that have homes in trees including a child's tree house. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Come Play With Me

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses children playing. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: At the Beach

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive nonfiction ebook focuses on what to see and do at the beach. Students can choose to read independently or listen to each sentence.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of six fiction ebooks, eight non-fiction ebooks, and three sets of sentence activities: dragon, baby, and toy box. Students can choose to read or listen to each sentence of the ebooks.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Shadows Shadows Everywhere!

For Teachers K
Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Lesson Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Non Fiction Text Features

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use non-fiction books to identify and explain how text features help them as individual readers.
Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.7.ri.1.3

For Teachers 1st Standards
This site provides explanation of the Florida English Language Arts Standard: Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: It's a Process. Day 1 of 5

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
SWBAT collaborate in writing step by step directions for writing an informational paragraph.
Website
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Nonfiction

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Provides advice for how to incorporate nonfiction into a reading program. Includes videos, links to downloadable 'adventure packs,' tip sheets for parent, a list of websites on nonfiction, and articles.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...