Young scholars compare and contrast creation stories.  In this Bible studies activity, students work in groups to read and summarize creation myths and share with their peers.  The class goes on to create a chart to compare and...

Contains plans for one 60-minute lesson that teaches about a reading strategy called Character Perspective Charting. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to...

The complete guide to the computer character encoding scheme known as Unicode. The site includes a description of Unicode, the development history of Unicode, and links to all of the Unicode character charts.

Inspired by the music "Free to Be. . . You and Me" by Marlo Thomas, this instructional activity, which will take several days, asks students to compose stories that teach character traits that will be shared with elementary school...

This is a comprehensive 11-page chart on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. It provides background information on the play, a plot summary, character descriptions, themes, symbol tags, quotes, and a summary and analysis of each scene in the...

In this lesson plan learners will learn how to make informed decisions based on evidence. Working in groups, they answer a set of questions that enable them to identify and make a decision for a character in a complex, real-life...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on classifying and categorizing through which students learn how to sort items into two and three categories and explain how each group is classified. Finally, students categorize...

This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...

Great study guide for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," complete with pre-reading material (author biography, vocabulary words, novel introduction), reading questions, brainstorming and charting...

Great study guide for Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," complete with pre-reading material (author biography, vocabulary words, novel introduction), reading questions, brainstorming and charting activities, and thought-provoking writing...

These five activities allow pupils to explore the various Cinderella folktales, while comparing and contrasting the characters. They provide lesson extensions, links to charts, discussion questions and the like.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare and contrast two items, themselves with a character, and two characters within a text. Lessons use the books...