This site provides links to the full text of 8 novels by Harold Bell Wright.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this ReadWorks read aloud lesson, students will describe Bentley's environment and his interactions with it. Students will evaluate the impact a person's environment can have on life. Then students...

Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.

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...

Sixth graders will learn about the influence of family expectations and religious values on the development of one's personal identity. Students will also learn how reading informational texts in coordination with literary texts can...

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter lists picture books, fiction, and nonfiction titles on World War II.

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...

A instructional activity designed to teach students how to recognize an effective summary. Following the instructional activity, several practice fiction and nonfiction texts are available in both English and Spanish for grades 3, 4, and...

This site provides the viewer with a step-by-step guide to writing critical reviews for non-fiction works. Its steps include analyzing the assignment as well as writing a clear introduction, body, and conclusion. Links to other writing...

The highly-respected Reading Rockets program offers both teachers and students a toolkit of ways to connect more actively with the materials they read. Some of these techniques are specifically for fiction-reading, others are designed...

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...

Analyze the different perspectives presented by two authors telling the same story.

The creator of the "nonfiction novel," Truman Capote, who established his career as a Southern gothic writer, crossed the line between journalism and fiction. This biography provides his background and information about his writing and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...

As young writers become more skilled through the Writers Workshop lessons, they can begin working to become more skilled with non-fiction writing. A series of mini-lessons, graphic organizers, and samples of student work are all provided.

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.

Lesson teaching the use of word selection, context, structure, and specific references in making inferences within non-fiction texts.

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.

An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.

An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.

The New England Review is a quarterly journal that publishes short fiction, a variety of general and literary nonfiction, and poetry.

This learning module features "genre" as the topic for PowerPoint presentations, lessons, and quizzes. Numerous projects with the "genre" theme are available for further exploration as opportunities for more in-depth investigations.

This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .

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