University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Is It What I Think or What I Know? (Fact or Opinion)
This short lesson provides a fairly simple way to teach young students the difference between fact and opinion.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Empowering Students: I Am What I Think I Am!
Activity challenges students to think deeply about what gives a person the strength to triumph over crushing hardships and, thereby, to realize that the limits to what anyone might accomplish are often determined by the views he holds of...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: The Ghost Belonged to Me
This site on the book "The Ghost Belonged to Me," by Richard Peck, includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources."
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Think, Write, Read: Expository Writing
While this instructional activity's main focus will be centered on expository writing, it will also integrate reading, computer, and organizational skills. After reading the novel, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, students will write...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Solve the Problem?
During this instructional activity, students will analyze ways in which the character(s) in stories solve problems encountered. In small groups, students will brainstorm possible solutions to realistic problems in order to enhance...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Teaching the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
In this self-directed study involving research, composition, and presentation, students analyze Chaucer's characters of The Canterbury Tales as presented in the Prologue. Each student casts a modern personality in the role of one of the...
Other
Webfoot.com: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Format
This guide explains what types of formats you should use in your email messages to insure the receiver will receive your message as intended. This website covers fancy text, extended character sets, web links, punctuation and quotation...
Other
Literature Learning Ladders: A Long Way From Chicago
Check out this informative site about "A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck and learn about small-town life during the Depression in seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The American Family in Literature
What is the objective of this "American Family in Literature" unit? This site uses "Farmer Boy" and "Nobody's Family Can Change" to explore differences in families. The resource includes rationale and activities to help get this point to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Adjectives in a Bag!
During this hands-on lesson, students learn to describe unknown objects by using adjectives. Students have the opportunity to practice using adjectives by exploring an Internet site.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: 12 Angry Men Primary Sources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This web style flipchart supports students study of Reginald Rose's play 12 Angry Men. The flipchart includes primary sources, pages that facilitate group dynamic discussion, and links and resources...