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Urban Education: Exchange: Read Works: 3rd Grade Lesson: Fantasy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg and fantasy texts from the classroom library to learn about the characteristics that define fantasy. Lesson includes...
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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Fairy Tales Kindergarten Unit: Fantasy Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] After introducing the concept of fantasy within fairy tales, teachers lead class in finding examples of fantasy elements in the story Little Red Riding Hood. Following this model, students work...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin tells the intimate coming-of-age story of the Portland, Oregon, housewife and mother of three who forever transformed American literature by bringing science fiction and fantasy into the literary mainstream....
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Curated OER

Study Guide for a Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This study guide provide activities for all chapters in Madeleine L'Engle's fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Connected text questions are provlded for Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Ray Bradbury

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Ray Bradbury, a prominent science fiction author; it stresses the importance of setting in science fiction and provides a link to a setting activity. The lesson features links to a Bradbury biography, the short...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Isaac Asimov

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Isaac Asimov, science fiction author. It features links to I, Robot, a a collection of nine science fiction short stories and Isaac Asimov's website. It also provides questions and a quiz over "Robbie," the first...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Kurt Vonnegut, a science fiction author who is famous for his quotes and satire. It features his short story "Harrison Bergeron," an after-reading quiz, and a writing assignment about it. It also provides the NPR:...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Fantasy and Science Fiction: Science Fiction Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on science fiction poetry and the use of the literary techniques, alliteration and assonance. It features links to two Vimeo videos on alliteration, the Science Fiction Poetry Association website, and WiseGEEK: "What...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Fantasy

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the fantasy genre. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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California State University

Fantasy Food Groups Fun Land

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Come slide down chocolate mudslides and bounce on marshmallows in this crazy imaginary art activity. Students work to create a fantasy land made entirely of different foods. Students are encouraged to use knowledge of the six food groups...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: List of Fantasy Books for Kids

For Students 1st - 8th
A list of fantasy books for kids middle school and elementary aged reading levels.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Vampires: Folklore, Fantasy and Fact

For Students 9th - 10th
The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia to 18th-century Eastern Europe, but it has differed in the terrifying details. So, how did we arrive at the popular image we know, love and fear today? And...
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The Mythopoeic Society

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website for the Mythopoeic Society, founded in 1967. Includes study and education concerning modern and classical fantasy and mythical literature, especially that of Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams.
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Poetry Foundation

Sacred Texts: "The Well at the World's End" by William Morris

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the original, online text of the fantasy novel "The Well at the World's End" by William Morris.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A House Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1895, one work is A House-Boat on the Styx. This fantasy was written by John Kendrick Bangs.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Shadows Shadows Everywhere!

For Teachers K
Shadows are all around us.Students will use reading comprehension strategies to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
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Language Guide

Language Guide: La Fantasia

For Students 9th - 10th
These vocabulary words are the kinds of words one would find when reading children's fantasy stories of kingdoms, pirates and unicorns. Interactive audio modeling the correct Spanish pronunciation is heard when the mouse is moved over...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 43: Screening Coleridge's Fantasies

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are often hesitant to speak out with their own explications of literature, but usually have no qualms when asked to offer interpretations of popular musical lyrics. In fact, they seem quite eager to defend a lyrical explanation...
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Other

China Vista: Selected Chinese Myths and Fantasies

For Students 3rd - 8th
Because myths were not recorded, only fragments and short tales exist today. Here are a dozen or so of the most famous. You can also click to find out more about the history and features of Chinese mythology. (Click home to access...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures

For Teachers K - 1st
This online lesson plan deals with children's natural interest in imaginary play, fantasy, and make-believe by tying it into discovering and understanding different cultures from around the world.
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Other

Lit Plan Teacher Pack for a Wrinkle in Time

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This Teacher's Pet Publication written by Mary Collins is an abbreviated unit for A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Englie's fantasy classic.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story collection The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs, is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study: Amy Palermo, River Trail Ms

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This interactive novel study provides a 21st Century approach for learners to understand Madeleine L'Engle's classic, A Wrinkle in Time. Students with develop PicCollages, create Audioboos (student-created version of Audiobooks), write...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Down the Rabbit Hole" by Lewis Carroll

For Students 7th - 8th
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...

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