[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Partial Eclipse" and "Field Trip" share the theme of astronomy. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Taken by Surprise" and "Finding Salinger" share the common theme of change. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

Find instructions, forms, and inspiration to help students to share their reading excitement with the class.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Brown Onions" and "Learning to Skate" share the theme of father-daughter relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.

Iseult Gillespie shares everything you need to know to read Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein. [5:02]

[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of first grade reading and writing resources contains lesson plans and worksheets that can be used during the research process.

This downloadable slideshow focuses on prediction and inference including the similarities and differences between them, when the reader does each, and questions to ask as you are reading.

This teaching tool focuses on teaching poetry in less than 10 minutes per day. Turn your students into poetry pros with a quick structured poetry analysis. Focus Poetry is a technique of shared reading that provides multiple...

Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...

A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...

Learn about Georgia Douglas Johnson, an important Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright. List of suggested readings included.

Read about the current state of the economy of Belarus, its strengths and weaknesses. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.

This two-page PDF is a literary analysis essay writing assignment for students after reading several of "Aesop's Fables." It explains the assignment, provides specific examples for parts of the assignment, and offers links to resources...

This is an 11- page PDF about Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer's book about his experience climbing Mount Everest. It includes a short summary of the book, a biography about the author, book reviews, discussion questions, an interview with...

Through videos, interactive activities, and readings, students explore the future of food production and sustainability of our current agricultural system.

Read about the history of asphalt beginning in the city of Babylon around 615 BCE. Learn how Europeans and Americans began to use it on roads, how businesses competed for a market share and even patented roads, changes to asphalt...

Students will synthesize information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text. Working with a partner who has read a different book, they will share their theme from their...

Students need to have lots of opportunities to share their opinions based on text. In this lesson, the teacher will read the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, multiple times before the students create their opinion. The detailed process of...

This site shares a PDF worksheet for students to organize connotative and denotative meanings. Students will read "Shooting an Elephant" and then complete the chart with explanations of the denotative and connotative meanings. L.11-12.5b...