Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features
Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach learners how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Towson University
Towson University: Electronic Edition of the General Prologue: Canterbury Tales
This multimedia site is full of useful features, from a video introduction to the purpose of the site, to notes on the text and a reading in Middle English. Information about the background, language and other details are also included.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Ellis Parker Butler
This site features the author Ellis Parker Butler including the full text of five short stories including "Pigs is Pigs" and "Solander's Radio Tomb."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: H. A. Cody
This site features the author H. A. Cody including the full text of six novels including Rod of the Lone Patrol and Under Sealed Orders.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Rebecca Harding Davis
This site features the author Rebecca Harding Davis including the full text of the short story "Balacchi Brothers".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Richard Harding Davis
This site features the author Richard Harding Davis including the full text of two novels: The King's Jackal and The Lion and the Unicorn and 15 short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Ethel M. Dell
This site features the author Ethel M. Dell including the full text of 16 novels and 12 short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: R. K. Douglas
This site features the author R. K. Douglas including the full text of the short story "A Chinese Girl Graduate".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Georg Ebers
This site features the author Georg Ebers including the full text of 18 novels, one nonfiction work, and two short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Maria Edgeworth
This site features the author Maria Edgeworth including the full text of the novel The Absentee.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Eliza Lee Follen
This site features the author Eliza Lee Follen including the full text of the novel Two Festivals and four short stories including "What The Animals Do and Say" and "The Talkative Wig."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Mary Hallock Foote
This site features the author Mary Hallock Foote including the full text of the novel The Desert and the Sown and ten short stories including "The Story of the Alcazar" and "The Watchman."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: John Fox Jr.
This site features the author John Fox Jr. including the full text of six novels such as A Cumberland Vendetta, and The Heart Of The Hills and 11 short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Harold Frederic
This site features the author Harold Frederic including the full text of the short story "Brother Sebastian's Friendship".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: R. Austin Freeman
This site features the author R. Austin Freeman including the full text of five novels including John Thorndyke's Cases, The Mystery of 31 New Inn, and The Red Thumb Mark.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Hildegard G. Frey
This site features the author Hildegard G. Frey including the full text of four children's novels: The Camp Fire Girls at School, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin, and The Campfire Girls Go Motoring.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Fergus Hume
This site features the author Fergus Hume including the full text of four novels including The Green Mummy, Madame Midas, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, and The Secret Passage.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Montague Rhodes James
This site features the author Montague Rhodes James including the full text of nine short stories including "The Ash-tree", "Canon Alberic's Scrap-book", and "Casting the Runes".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Jerome K. Jerome
This site features the author Jerome K. Jerome including the full text of the novel All Roads Lead to Calvary and six short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Richard Malcolm Johnston
This site features the author Richard Malcolm Johnston including the full text of the short story "The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker".