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Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Pam Munoz Ryan

For Students 3rd - 6th
This site includes an interview with Pam Munoz Ryan, a famous author of many children's picture books and historical fiction books. Read reviews of some of Pam Munoz Ryan's books by chidren.
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Read Works

Read Works: The British Are Coming!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a historical fiction depiction of a family's perspective of the Revolutionary War. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Angela Shelf Medearis

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about historical fiction author Angela Shelf Medearis. Links to a list of her books, an interview, and an author's visit kit are provided.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Michael Malloy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this biography to learn about historical fiction author Michael Malloy. A link to a list of his books is provided.
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions in...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Count Magnus by Montague Rhodes James

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a ghost story, Count Magnus, which was first published in 1904. It is part of the "The Ghosts of Antiquary" series written by Montague Rhodes...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This historical fiction lesson plan is for students reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in which they can discuss the tragedy of Hiroshima and its impact as well as other themes.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Dear Annie by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is the novelette "Dear Annie," which was first featured in Harper's Weekly on September 24, 1910. This work was written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Deal on Change by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a story, "A Deal in Change," which was first published in the late 1800's. It was written by Robert Barr.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The goal of this lesson plan is for young scholars to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson plan will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Virginia in American Fiction, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
Notable areas connected with famous authors and their books: Virginia as used in American fiction writing.
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Curated OER

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: The Parsonage

For Students 9th - 10th
This 1824 house was home to the father of writer Horatio Alger (1832-99). Alger, a prolific and popular writer of juvenile fiction, frequently summered here.
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Virginia Tech

The Alan Review: An Interview With Will Hobbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interview with author Will Hobbs was conducted in 1994. Although not recent, it gives interesting and thoughtful views on the art of writing fiction. If you're thinking of being a writer, or just wonder how a writer works, this is...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Stephen Crane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Library of Congress site provides a brief description of Crane's life as a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War and then provides some excerpts from some of his war correspondences. A bibliography of related works of...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: The Blue Hotel

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".
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abcteach

Abcteach: Book Report Forms

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Arcturus or the Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine M. Sedgwick

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Arcturus, or, The Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1865), a fictional story based on factual scientific information.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell (1888). This book is a fictional biography of Hans the painter.
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Yale University

Biographies for Change in a Time of Conformity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Reading non-fiction and perhaps particularly biography is a skill that must be taught. This unit uses the lives of three icons: Elvis Presley, Malcolm X and Rachel Carson to develop this skills. Extensive bibliography for the teacher,...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: Excerpts From Behind the Scenes

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders explore a tumultuous period in our country's history during which people questioned political decisions, morals, and social norms. This unit presents opportunities for students to examine different perspectives through...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Denise and Ned Toodles

For Students 2nd - 4th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Denise and Ned Toodles by Gabrielle Emilie Jackson, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Dog Crusoe and His Master

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Dot and Her Treasures

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Dot and Her Treasures by L. T. Meade, a fiction book for children.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: For the Queen's Sake

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of For the Queen's Sake by Evelyn Everett-Green, a fiction book for children.

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