Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: Written in Bone
This unit focuses on learning the stories of our past. Students will explore various texts (literary and informational) and their unique perspectives on history to consider how different experiences offer a different historical...
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Navajo Treaty of 1868
This site from the University of Groningen provides the text of the original document of the Navajo Treaty of 1868 signed by President Andrew Johnson.
Other
Robert Frost: America's Poet
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.
Other
A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
Read Works
Read Works: A Baby Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a baby polar bear as he grows and learns to be on his own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The New Negro
Learn about some of the people who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dance Theatre of Harlem
Learn about the Dance Theatre of Harlem is this segment from A Walk Through Harlem.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Lost World of Gilded Age Politics
This extensive look at politics between 1876 and 1896 describes how the Republican Party functioned during this time and how the excesses in politics resulted in reform and the next era in politics, the Progressive Era. A very...
EL Education
El Education: An a to Z Book of Homelessness
This ABC book about the lives of homeless people was created by 3rd and 4th grade students in Washington, D.C. The class took part in a Learning Expedition about homelessness in part because students walked by homeless individuals on...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
Professor Kate Rushin describes the Harlem Renaissance as a large social and cultural movement fueled by many factors in this video from A Walk Through Harlem.
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Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens
This site is maintained by an organization in Hartford, Connecticut, Stevens' home town, devoted to promoting Stevens' poetry and contribution to the Hartford community. It contains a map and photos of the route Stevens walked to work...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Egalitarian America
Comprehensive teaching unit on egalitarian America: Americans that demanded political, social, and economic equality in all walks of life. Learn how the civil rights movement and an expanding mass media helped to reshape a changing...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Violet Measures
Violet is going for a walk with a friend. She makes trail mix for each of them but can't resist eating some of the chocolate. Includes audio narration in 15 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Forest
Take a walk in the forest and enjoy the trees and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Spectroscopy
Web-based activity walks learners through the use of spectroscopy in determining the identity of atoms and molecules by defining the excited state of atoms, the frequencies of emitted photons, and atoms' ability to absorb them....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Philosophical Chairs Discussion
Philosophical Chairs discussions allow young scholars to make meaning of texts while developing, defending, and supporting their claims. This resource walks you through how to implement this type of discussion in your classroom. Included...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Texas Navy: Back to Yucatan
A peace agreement between the Mexican government and the Yucatan rebels was bad news for the Texas navy. How did Commodore Moore react? Read this article to find out, and check out useful primary texts: "Midshipman Alfred Walke describes...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Honest Abe [Pdf]
"Honest Abe" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about Abraham Lincoln's honesty; it tells stories of him walking miles to correct an accidental mistake. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from...
Read Works
Read Works: Taken by Surprise
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a man named Tim who is surprised and disappointed by the changes he sees while walking through the subway. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Read Works
Read Works: The Tree
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Emma who finds a fairy home while walking in the woods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk...
Other
Pennsylvania Doe: Lesson Plan: Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
In this lesson the teacher uses modeling and questioning strategies to walk young scholars through making inferences in various texts and then using those inferences to draw conclusions.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Wandering Willie's Tale" by Walter Scott
Darsie is taking a break from school and encounters a fellow traveler, Willie, and his wife while walking the countryside. Willie is known for telling really good stories and Darsie asks him to share one as they walk. Read the full text...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "What the Moon Brings" by h.p. Lovecraft
The narrator takes a walk one night and ends up uncovering a city of the dead in this scary short story. Read the full text of "What the Moon Brings" on this site.