Read Works
Read Works: "The Railway Train"
[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: "Paul Revere's Ride"
[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: "Loveliest of Trees"
[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: "Ozymandias"
[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: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
[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: "Casey at the Bat"
[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: Three Blind Mice
[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: "Sonnet 73"
[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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.3.10: By the End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Literature
Links to 25 lessons that focus on skills within third grade reading standard RL.3.10.
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Playground Fun: Storybooks and Poems
Students will learn to recognize storybooks and poems and identify their differences with this interactive tutorial.
Read Works
Read Works: Singing Time
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.3.10 Worksheets: By End of the Year, Read and Comprehend Lit
[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]
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Poetry: Sound and Sense
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.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: The Odyssey
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...
Other
Poetry Analysis for 10th Grade Language Arts
Choose from the poems, then complete the reading, discussion, and writing activities. A good wrap-up to a poetry unit.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Picture This: Visualization
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Text to Self and Text to World Connections
Students will further their reading comprehension by associating real-life events with the events of a story.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Languages
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...
Favorite Poem Project
Boston University: Favorite Poem Project
A video collection of poetry readings delivered by ordinary Americans, young and old. A blend of well-known and unknown poems, each selection describes why a particular poem was chosen as a favorite and includes a read-along transcript.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: A Poem for Two Voices [Pdf]
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...
Other
Classic Poetry Aloud Index
Listen to classic poetry read aloud in podcast format. Search by poet, theme, or top ten poems.
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
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...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
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...