Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental: Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Pam Munoz Ryan
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.
Read Works
Read Works: The British Are Coming!
[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...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Angela Shelf Medearis
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Biography: Michael Malloy
Read this biography to learn about historical fiction author Michael Malloy. A link to a list of his books is provided.
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit
[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...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Count Magnus by Montague Rhodes James
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...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes
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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Dear Annie by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: A Deal on Change by Robert Barr
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
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...
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Virginia in American Fiction, 1911
Notable areas connected with famous authors and their books: Virginia as used in American fiction writing.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: The Parsonage
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.
Virginia Tech
The Alan Review: An Interview With Will Hobbs
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Stephen Crane
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...
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: The Blue Hotel
This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".
abcteach
Abcteach: Book Report Forms
[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...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Arcturus or the Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine M. Sedgwick
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.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell
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.
Yale University
Biographies for Change in a Time of Conformity
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,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: Excerpts From Behind the Scenes
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...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Denise and Ned Toodles
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Denise and Ned Toodles by Gabrielle Emilie Jackson, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Dog Crusoe and His Master
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Michael Ballantyne, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Dot and Her Treasures
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Dot and Her Treasures by L. T. Meade, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: For the Queen's Sake
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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