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Bedtime Story Classics Alice in Wonderland
This beautiful online edition of the Lewis Carroll classic is written in large text for easy legibility, and includes illustrations from eleven different versions of the story. It also includes background information on the writing of...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Chapter 12
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Cross Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Adventurous Magic
This writing activity is inspired by Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and students will be asked to write about an original magical object that they have discovered in the "Elives' Magic Supplies," just as Jeremy does in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: An Ocean Adventure
Students will listen to a story and then, using the writing process, write their own story using word processing software. They will then create an ocean picture to illustrate their stories.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Weird Animal Adventures: Tuesday
After reading the picture book Tuesday by David Weisner, students write stories about strange animals and their nighttime adventures. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student samples, an interactive idea...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner
In this instructional activity, students will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
Curated OER
Writing fix.com: Short Adventure Stories: The Abominable Snowman
Front cover of the book The Abominable Snowman (Choose Your Own Adventure #1) by R. A. Montgomery.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Dickory Cronke
This site provides the complete etext for Daniel Defoe's story, Dickory Cronke.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Samuel the Tale
This site provides the complete etext for Jack London's story, Samuel-The Tale.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Smoke Bellew
This site provides the complete etext for Jack London's story, Smoke Bellew.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Son of the Wolf
This site provides the complete etext for Jack London's story, The Son of the Wolf.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "Life Studies" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Six-page teacher "Life Studies" guide written by Vreeland herself. "Life Studies" is actually a collection of three short stories. Guide includes the following for each story: synopsis, follow-up questions, related stories, and writing...
Sonoma State University
Sun Site: Jack London White Fang, Etext
This site features the full text of White Fang originally published in The Outing Magazine between May and October 1906 as well as a concordance.
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: James Fenimore Cooper: Jack Tier
The text of one of Cooper's lesser known novels, "Jack Tier; or, The Florida Reef." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support material which...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Flight From Bear Canyon Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Flight From Bear Canyon, an adventure novel written by Anita Daher, is set in the Nahanni River Valley of Canada's Northwest Territories. It tells the story of a young girl's experience as she flies a plane and helps to save the life of...