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Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...
Primary
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Fact Tracker: Mummies and Pyramids

For Students K - 1st
This book checks information shared in the fiction book entitled Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne. Mummies and Pyramids, the nonfiction companion written by Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne, is the...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Reach for the Stars How I Became an Astronaut

For Students K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "How I Became an Astronaut: The Story of Stephanie D. Wilson." It provides a short biography of her childhood interests, her education, and training to become an astronaut.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: A Day in the Life of a Firefighter

For Students K - 1st
This is the interactive ebook "A Day in the Life of a Firefighter" by Brandi Chase. It explains and shows what a day as a firefighter looks like including training and cooking meals as well as fighting fires. Children can listen to the...
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Other

Storyarts: The on Line Writing Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Storyarts is a free online writing workshop that includes not only assignments, but also publication of writings to other e-mail subscribers through its Storyarts Listserv. Samples of published works are included.
Primary
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Harold Bell Wright

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to the full text of 8 novels by Harold Bell Wright.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sunshine at Home by Review & Herald Publishing (1883), a collection of illustrated passages forming a family portfolio of natural history, biography, and Bible...
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Other

Ink Pot: A Print Literary Journal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ink Pot accepts short stories, poetry, and essays. Guidelines for submitting work, as well as samples of previously published entries, are readily available at this site. This site offers a great archive as well.
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Other

Advice for Young Writers: 10 Tips for Students in Writing Biographies

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Children's author, Kathleen Krull, writer of many biographies, shares some tips for making biographies come alive. Perhaps her most interesting tips are to be nosy, and look for juicy details.
Professional Doc
FNO Press

From Now On: Graphical Organizers as Thinking Technology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
From Now On explains the purpose and advantages of graphic organizers such as converting complex information into meaningful displays, helping students plan their research, and sometimes acting as mind maps. There are several examples...
Lesson Plan
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District:teaching Summarization to Struggling Students

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson designed to teach learners how to recognize an effective summary. Following the lesson, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and 5. Answer key provided. [PDF]
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: World War Ii

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter lists picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles on World War II.
Website
Starfall

Starfall: It's Fun to Read: I'm Reading

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This is a collection of online reading stories for beginning readers. These collections include plays, fiction and nonfiction stories, comics, folktales, Greek myths, and Chinese fables. Many of the stories have an option for read alouds...
Activity
English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Relationships Between Illustrations and Texts Worksheet

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
When we are reading nonfiction or fiction we can often use a point of reference that drives us to make better conclusions. Illustrations are the perfect media to achieve this. This can help the reader attribute value to a setting, a...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Bookmarks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
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EL Education

El Education: Insect Cards

For Teachers 1st - 5th
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
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EL Education

El Education: In the Zone: Where the Land Meets the Water

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This field guide to the marine organisms of the intertidal zone of Casco Bay was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine, as part of a Learning Expedition called, "In the Zone." Students were engaged in scientific research at...
Graphic
Curated OER

Children's Books About the Holocaust

For Students 3rd - 8th
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
Graphic
Curated OER

Children's Books About the Holocaust

For Students 3rd - 8th
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Genres Activotes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an Activote genre quiz to go along with Genres lesson.

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