Activity
College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Crime & Punishment

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Gender, Behaviour & Etiquette

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...
Lesson Plan
University of Maryland

Voices of Democracy: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "Inaugural Address" January 1961

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this activity to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes pre-reading ideas,...
Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Non Fiction Unit 4 Formal/impersonal Writing: Tourists

For Teachers 5th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will analyze tourism brochures to determine features related to nonfiction writing in this unit. Tourism websites may be used in lieu of the brochures. Cotswold and the North Leigh Roman Villa...