Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Commentary on Quotations From Text in an Interpretive Response
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that uses embedded quotations to provide evidence in your response to an expository or a literary text.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times: Roughing It
A complete look at Mark Twain's second major work, "Roughing It." You'll find the text, illustrations, contemporary reviews, publicity, and Mark Twain's schedule on his lecture circuit.
University of Virginia
Mark Twain in His Times: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
As part of a larger site, Mark Twain in his Times, this site on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" offers the text, selected illustrations, advertisements for the book when first published, contemporary reviews, and much more information...
University of North Carolina
Unc: Mark Twain Old Times on the Mississippi
Here, read Mark Twain's (1835-1910 CE) "Old Times on the Mississippi." Download the full text, as well as the accompanying illustrations.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: "The $30,000 Bequest" by Mark Twain
This site features the full text of the short story "The $30,000 Bequest" by Mark Twain.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: "About Play Acting" by Mark Twain
This site features the full text of "About Play-Acting" by Mark Twain, a critique of the theater production of The Master of Palmyra.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Burlesque Biography" by Mark Twain
This is the full text of the short story "A Burlesque Biography" by Mark Twain, an autobiography which has no relationship to Twain's real life.
Other
Online Literature: Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain
This is the original, online PDF text of the novel Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain
This is the complete text of the novel Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain
Poetry Foundation
Full Books: "What Is Man? By Mark Twain
This is the original, online text of the essay "What Is Man?" by Mark Twain.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky discusses how humans treat the oceans and the fish that live in them, and what the world will likely look like if fish...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Mark Twain's Hannibal
Primary texts, such as music, photographs, and maps, allow young scholars to examine how Mark Twain's life in Hannibal, Missouri, influenced his popular written works, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Mark Twain in His Times
This collection from the University of Virginia provides a great deal of information about how Mark Twain created his works. Lots of recent reviews and articles are included.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Mark Strand
A site about Mark Strand and his poetry, but without the texts of any of his works. Includes biographies, critiques of his works, essays by Strand, and interviews with him.
University of North Carolina
Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi
Here, read Mark Twain's (1835-1910 CE) book, "Life on the Mississippi," which was originally published in 1883. Download two HTML versions of the text: one providing links to images in the original text and one with images included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate for Meaning (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on annotation including the tools and techniques for marking texts, annotating for meaning in a story, and adding marginal notations to your marked text.
Read Works
Read Works: Making Your Mark
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about piercings and tattoos as body art. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Questioning the Text
In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: International Revolutions
This is a collection of 21 Grade-Leveled texts (4-12) on the topic International Revolutions. The world's had its fair share of international revolutions as people around the globe sought to create meaningful change. Learn about some of...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: The Gilded Age
This is a collection of 8 Grade-Leveled texts (5-12) on the topic "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain named 1870-1900 "The Gilded Age" in hopes of capturing how the era of serious social problems was veiled by a thin layer of gold. While robber...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate for Meaning
This lesson focuses on annotating or marking text to enhance understanding. It offers tools and techniques for marking text including adding marginal notes to annotated pages.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Annotate for Meaning (English Ii Reading)
This lesson focuses on annotating text to aid in understanding of the text including annotating an argument and poetry. It also provides tools and techniques for marking text.
Other
Eei Communictions: Standard Proofreading Marks
This resource presents a table of standard proofreading marks. The table indicates whether the marks would be used in the margin or in the text, but does not give examples of the marks in use.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Ambitious Courtier and Imprisoned Philosopher by E N Marks
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Ambitious Courtier and Imprisoned Philosopher by E. N. Marks (1888). This is a nonfiction story about Sir Walter Raleigh; it also includes a catalog from 1888.