Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi
Explore this informative teachers' guide for the book, "The Garden of Abdul Gasazi," by Chris Van Allsburg. Students and teachers will enjoy this comprehensive source.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Books: Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg
This comprehensive teacher's guide for the book "Zathura" by Chris Van Allsburg provides us with an opportunity to examine how writers blend scientific information with a fictional story.
San Diego State University
San Diego State University: Allometric Modeling
This site shows how to use exponential graphs to model AIDS cases. Very detailed site.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Giver
This blendspace includes thirty-two spaces with content connected to Lois Lowry's dystopia novel, The Giver. Links include novel discussion questions, author interviews, and video tutorials to review literary topics.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Story Structure
In this learning module, students will learn more about the structure of a short story. Notes and video clips are provided to reinforce understanding of story structure. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Story Structure Activities
This learning module provides remediation and extra practice with analyzing story structures. Reinforcement for story structures is provided through the two PowerPoint lessons, three quizzes, and four different worksheets.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Reading Activities
An assortment of reading mini-projects are included on this site. Reading skills worksheets and differentiated reading activities are also included.
Other
What Is a Short Story?
An essay that attempts to answer that question. The author is an author and teacher, and is understandably troubled with the idea of defining exactly what a "short story" is.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet Plot & Characters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides a number of activities for the introduction of Romeo and Juliet. Students will dig more deeply to aspects of the plot and characters of Romeo and Juliet. Translations of phrases...
TES Global
Tes: Character Profile
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a downloadable worksheet for a character profile booklet.
TES Global
Tes: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students' understanding of literary concepts related to William Golding's Lord of the Flies is reinforced with this card sort activity.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Using a Number Line
This WebMath site provides an interactive number line "solver." Content includes helpful hint and a full explanation of the mathematical solution.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Circle
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about a circle, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the circle.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Plot of a Mathematical Expression
This WebMath site provides an interactive 'solvers' to plot x and y coordinates on a graph.
Caro Clarke
Writing Advice: Don't Get It Right the First Time
How much of your novel have you written? Do you keep starting it and never finishing it? Learn the answers to these questions in this novel-writing advice piece.
Caro Clarke
Not Stopping the Reader: How to Avoid Stumbling Blocks
This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.
Caro Clarke
A, B, and C Characters
This is the ninth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article focuses on what the author calls "A, B, and C Characters," used to describe the different levels of characters.
Caro Clarke
Rewriting
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
Read Works
Read Works: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the first Thanksgiving. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
Read Works
Read Works: Alex's Discovery
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Alex who meets a man from outer space in need of some help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
Read Works
Read Works: Puppies, Puppies, Puppies
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kamil whose dog had puppies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: My Favorite Alley Cat
[Free Registration/Login Required] Requires free membership. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
Read Works
Read Works: World's Greatest Robot
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about brothers who work together to plan the perfect robot. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.