[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.

This tutorial surveys the way readers should interpret literature or text in symbols, syntax, meaning, and the like. The article features a Literary Toolkit for Analyzing Literature.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write a strong thesis statement in four mini-lessons: Introduction, A Thesis Should Be Debatable, A Thesis Should Be...

A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.

Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...

Get the feel of running a newspaper by selecting articles and pictures. If you are interested in checking out real newspapers, there is a clickable list of online newspapers for younger readers.

In this lesson unit, students investigate how justice is perceived and addressed in different cultures and times by examining literature from around the world. Texts examined include: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, A Sport of Nature by...

In this instructional activity, students interpret how words are used in a literary text and examine how word choice affects meaning and tone. A sample analysis of a poem is presented, terms are defined, and question stems for assessment...

Students will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements and put...

This PBS site contains two lesson plans. In grades K-2, read books written/illustrated by Maurice Sendak, find out what elementary school was like for Mr. Sendak, and write a class book based on one of his stories. In grades 6-8, learn...

This article is a brief history of the Early American novel with citations.

The New York Times Learning Network has developed interactive and printable crossword puzzles. The theme of this puzzle is poetry.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....

This lesson focuses on evaluating the connotation of a vocabulary word. It defines connotation and gives an example. It details three steps: read the word in context, determine the tone of the overall reading, and compare the tone with...

Seven slides introducing and providing examples of personification. Slides also explain the purpose and impact of personification within a text, and examples come from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Scroll down this essay from the Universtiy of Virginia to find a transliteration and several translations of a short poem by Ki no Tsurayuki. It is interesting to note the differing interpretations. Be sure to click on the "contents"...

Text from a speech introducing Wole Soyinka before he accepted the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. Contains biographical information and discussion of his literary works.

A cross-curricular lesson plan from PBS on Ralph Ellison's novel, "The Invisible Man." Ties a U.S. History study of the struggle for equality and civil rights with an analysis of the novel.

This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.

Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.

A graphic organizer for learning and applying understanding of the literary element of ambiguity. Includes sections in which you list the ambiguity from a given text and its possible interpretations.

Practice learning figurative language using these audio-enabled flashcards with literary terms and their definitions. Also provided is a list of terms and definitions (audio available) and links to games and a test. Java is required....

The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...