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Read Works

Read Works: "If You Were Coming in the Fall"

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Emily Dickinson about the uncertainty of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "The Railway Train"

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Emily Dickinson about a railroad train. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Paul Revere's Ride"

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the ride of Paul Revere. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Loveliest of Trees"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by A. E. Housman about cherry trees and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Ozymandias"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Percy Shelley about the ruins of a statue found in the desert. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Emily Dickinson about death, time, and eternity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Casey at the Bat"

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer about a professional baseball player named Casey who had a chance to win the game for his team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works

Read Works: Three Blind Mice

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is the nursery rhyme about three blind mice. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works

Read Works: "Sonnet 73"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A sonnet by William Shakespeare about love and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Rl.3.10: By the End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Literature

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 25 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.10.
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Things for Esl Japanese Version

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein

For Students 5th - 7th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Valentine for Ernest Mann" by Naomi Shihab Nye

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Playground Fun: Storybooks and Poems

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will learn to recognize storybooks and poems and identify their differences with this interactive tutorial.
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Education.com

Education.com: Rl.3.10 Worksheets: By End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Lit

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Links to 30 worksheets and graphic organizers that can be downloaded and printed. Each worksheet focuses on skills highlighted in standard RL.3.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Bird Came Down [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
A poem by Emily Dickinson in which the narrator watches a bird come, eat, and then fly away. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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The Atlantic Monthly Group

Atlantic Online: Poetry: "Man Listening to Disc" by Billy Collins

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of Billy Collins's poem, "Man Listening to Disc" and a link to the audio of Collins reading his poem.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Poetry: Sound and Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson that gently encourages the teaching of poetry in "nonthreatening" ways. Stresses reading and listening, discussion, and the examination of the sound and sense of poetry.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: The Odyssey

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
In this learning module, students will engage in a deep study of The Odyssey. Worksheets, tests, and map projects are provided to reinforce comprehension of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier...
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Other

Poetry Analysis for 10th Grade Language Arts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Picture This: Visualization

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
Students will practice the reading comprehension skill of visualizing. Teachers will model the skill with All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. Then students will listen to Robert Service's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a PDF lesson. After reading/listening to selections of "poems for two voices" from the book Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman and after students compare and contrast two items, they compose a poem for two voices in the "voice" of...

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