REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: Caption This
In this activity, students learn how to copy an image from the Internet and follow copyright. Images must be in the public domain and free from copyright protection. They can be copied from Google, but they have to be public domain and...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Classify and Categorize: Using Text Features to Find Information
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars will develop research questions, classify information into an outline form, and use the features of nonfiction writing to identify information relevant to a research question.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: The Woman Warrior
This lesson focuses on The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, memoirs of her growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants. It features links to an excerpt of the text, and summaries and commentaries from Shmoop and Sparknotes. There...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Buzzing Tails
This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Nonfiction: Jfk Speech
This lesson focuses on John F. Kennedy's speech, "We Choose to go to the Moon," delivered at Rice University on September 12, 1962. It features links to JFK's biography and Wikipedia entry, the National Geographic: "Moon 101" video, the...
Read Works
Read Works: Using Headings to Determine the Main Idea: The Shark: Silent Hunter
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Henry Adams
This site features the author Henry Adams including the full text of the novel Democracy, An American Novel and the nonfiction work The Education of Henry Adams.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Saint Augustine
This site features the author Saint Augustine including the full text of the nonfiction work The Confessions of Saint Augustine.
Read Works
Read Works: After the Floods
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a horrific flood that devastated parts of Pakistan in 2010. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas Bulfinch
This site features the author Thomas Bulfinch including the full text of the nonfiction work Bulfinch's Mythology, a collection of stories of the gods and heroes, British hero myths, legends of Charlemagne, etc.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Thomas Carlyle
This site features the author Thomas Carlyle including a biography and the full text of the nonfiction book The French Revolution.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Gilbert K. Chesterton
This site features the author Gilbert K. Chesterton including a biography, the full text of eight novels including The Innocence of Father Brown and The Man Who Knew Too Much and the nonfiction work All Things Considered.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This site features the author Thomas Bailey Aldrich including the full text of the novel The Story of a Bad Boy, the nonfiction work An Old Town by the Sea, the poetry collection The Sister's Tragedy, and two short stories.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Stephen Leacock
This site features the author Stephen Leacock including the full text of five novels such as Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, as well as, the nonfiction work My Discovery of England.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Edward Everett Hale
This site features the author Edward Everett Hale including the full text of the nonfiction work The Life of Christopher Columbus, and the short story "My Double; and How He Undid Me".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Jack London
This site features the author Jack London including a biography and the full text of 13 novels, 2 nonfiction pieces, and 130 short stories. His most famous works include "Call of the Wild," "The Sea Wolf," and "White Fang".
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Nicolo Machiavelli
This site features the author Nicolo Machiavelli including a biography and the full text of the nonfiction work The Prince. Machiavelli is considered one of the great early modern analyzers of political power.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
This site features the author Jean Jacques Rousseau including a biography and the full text of the nonfiction work, The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Anonymous
This site features the Anonymous author including the full text of the following: Forest & Frontiers; The Holy Bible, King James Version; Beowulf; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (poetry and prose versions); and 11 short stories.