In this lesson, students will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.

In this instructional activity, 1st graders will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the instructional activity and allow the children...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. When the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, triggering the Spanish-American War, the New York Times and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to use the historical thinking skills of corroboration,...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to gain a more nuanced understanding of how Americans...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), students read four documents that give different accounts of how Lewis and Clark treated the Native Americans they met on their expedition. Students are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Nat Turner led the largest slave uprising the South would see until the Civil War. The infamy of the event has led to multiple interpretations of Turner as a historical figure. By sourcing and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. For this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...

[Free Registration/Login Required] How necessary was it for the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in World War II? In this lesson plan, young scholars will study varying accounts and develop their own...

The full text of the novel Peg Woffington by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

The full text of the novel A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

The full text of the novel A Simpleton by Charles Reade. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.

Paul Salitter was a German officer responsible for the transport of 1007 Jews. He was instructed to keep a detailed account of this transport for his superiors. Read his report and juxtapose that with a first-hand account from a Jewish...

Read and listen to firsthand accounts of Chinese men and women who served in the Second World War. At that time, the Chinese were not even allowed to vote and their courageous efforts in the war went unacknowledged. This article tries to...

A reader's theater script of blizzard story co-written by Mary Evans Andrews, a free-lance writer, and a former early 1900's teacher, "Miss Lydia", is provided on these pages. Ten character roles are needed in this activity. Reading...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

Cooperative learning fosters group accountability and provides struggling readers with the opportunity to work with stronger academic role models. Learn how to introduce this strategy in the classroom.

Students read letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War.

This site from the Arlington National Cemetery provides an easy to read account of the life and work of Dr. Walter Reed (1851-1902 CE), Major in the United States Army Medical Corps who proved that yellow fever was transmitted by...

Read the personal accounts of four filmmakers who produced segments for the PBS series "World in the Balance."

A brief article explaining the basics about savings accounts and two kinds of interest: simple and compound. Also learn about managing your credit and credit card debt. Click on "Know the Terms: How to Manage Your Credit Cards" to read...

Excerpts from a military account of the Grenada invasion. Includes links to bibliography of books about the invasion of Grenada and a list of US Navy Ships participating in Operation Urgent Fury.