WORKSHEETS
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of short stories, their responses to the selection, and…
EDITOR'S COLLECTIONS
Did you assign reading from our summer reading suggestions? Use our related teaching guides when you return to school in…
Enhance understanding and diversity awareness with a teaching guide that offers reading ideas about Hispanic heritage…
Use Literature Circles to promote small group discussion in your classroom. This teacher's guide illustrates how to set…
BOOK GUIDES
Ask pupils these questions to guide classroom discussion about The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo.
Use the materials in this literature guide to supplement Unwind, a book about a futuristic world in which parents are…
Spark debate about symbolism, good versus evil, relationships, and more with these discussion questions for The…
Identifying complete sentences is the objective of this printable. Students will read the story of King Midas as they…
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn is an award-nominated mystery that takes place in 18th-century Japan. These ideas and…
REFERENCE
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems gives students the opportunity to experience one of America's outstanding…
This student handout will help students to read, understand, evaluate, and write poetry.
TEACHING RESOURCE
How to identify important information and take useful notes for a research paper.
GAMES AND APPS
Florence Parpart invented the first modern street-cleaning machine. Students will read about this woman inventor and…
This strategy gives students the opportunity to choose the books they read and to discuss their reading individually and…
Explore late eighteenth-century life in America with the discussion topics and cross-curricular activities in this…
The remarkably preserved body of Lady Dai of Mawangdui provides many clues about daily life in ancient China. Use this…
The excerpted chapters three and four of the The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn can be used to entice students into reading…
Activities and resources to teach Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz.
LESSON PLANS
Students use a web resource to explore the perspective of left-handed people coping in a right-handed society. They…
Students learn how to write a haiku using the Harry Potter book series as a prompt.
Students read several paragraphs about three Civil War heroes, and then answer questions.
ASSESSMENT
This middle school diagnostic reading assessment for back to school is designed to help you benchmark reading assessment…
Use a teaching guide that helps students analyze the elements of novels, their responses to the selection, and the craft…
