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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Shakespeare site that includes the texts of all of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's other work is listed, but texts are not available. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Noh Plays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a very comprehensive resource that includes discussion of Japanese Noh plays as well as the texts for thirteen plays. The texts are available in both Japanese and English. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.7 Multi...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 4: Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 4: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Teach the Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...
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Other

Classic Shorts: Classic Short Stories

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online story collection is classified alphabetically by author, and includes works by Jack London, James Joyce and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The word count for each story is given so the reader can determine the length of story the...
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American Library Association

Outstanding Books for College Bound & Lifelong Learners

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The American Library Association offers these suggestions for reading in history, humanities, literature, science, and social studies. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Mlk's Words Through Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This online lesson attempts to teach students the power of Martin Luther King's words in his "I Have a Dream" speech and others. Students create a diamante poem (seven-line diamond-shaped poem) to analyze and evaluate his words and...
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Other

St. John's University: Remembering What You Read

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from St. John's University explains some effective strategies for remembering what you read. Gives tips on creating associations that greatly increase reading memory. RI.11-12.10a & b Text Complexity
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "The Complexity of Fear" by Mary C. Lamia, ph.d

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Complexity of Fear" by Mary C. Lamia, Ph.D., accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
World War I, or the Great War, embroiled the globe in bloody fighting from 1914 to 1918. Learn about the complex alliances that led dozens of countries to go to war, how the war was won, and what life was like for soldiers and civilians....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] By using different organizational patterns as guides, learn how to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions while distinguishing factual claims.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: How to Teach Close Reading With Complex Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional video demonstrates ways to incorporate "close reading" with complex text. [56:53]
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Other

Golgi Complex: Structure and Function

For Students 9th - 10th
How do proteins move to the Golgi Complex? What types of secretion are controlled by the Golgi complex? How does Golgi complex regulate the insertion of plasma membrane proteins? Can proteins be transported back to the rough endoplasmic...
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Other

The Organometallic Hyper Text Book: Alkyne Complexes

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed discussion of the formation, bonding, and reactivity of alkyne complexes with transition metals. Includes spectroscopic data.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will discover some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, you'll come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can shape a...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Lafs.1112.rst.1.3: Follow Precisely a Complex Multistep Procedure

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
Find a collection of standards-aligned teacher and student resources where students follow procedural text.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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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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Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Reading Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Mind Tools reviews six different strategies to help you read more effectively. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity