A teacher's guide to Aldous Huxley's, A Brave New World. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A comprehensive teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.
This resource contains stories, anecdotes, targeted vocablary, questions, and related activities that will develop conversational and comprehension skills for Enlish as a Second Language students. This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners.
This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.
Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.
This document lists the 300 most common English words for ESL students to study and learn.
This TED video traces the etymology of the word "true" to show how there can be a whole story in a single word.
In this lesson exemplar, students will participate in critical discussion of two stories that illuminate important, yet divergent, experiences of war and conflict.
Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.
Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs. In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play. Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet's Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.
in this lesson, students extend their vocabulary by participating in the Vocabulary Bingo activity. This activity can be used with other subjects to help improve vocabulary.
In this lesson students review vocabulary by drawing pictures and writing sentences on index cards.
Student will gain understanding of a writer's use of context clues. Students will navigate through a Powerpoint workshop.
Frederick Douglass, a freed slave, is asked to give a speech to a group of Americans on the 4th of July. Douglass uses the occasion to eloquently and forcefully address the hypocrisy of a nation celebrating freedom, while enslaving so many. With equal force, he strips bare the arguments for slavery, concluding with a call for radical action to end slavery in America. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history with text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This TED video traces the etymology and history of the English language.
The narrator of The White Umbrella is a Chinese American girl who struggles with feelings of embarrassment and longing to be like others. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This lesson introduces the short story version of Flowers for Algernon.
In this lesson, students create flash cards that explain often confused words in order to understand their correct usage in writing.
Diane Ackerman describes fall foliage and explains the natural processes that cause the leaves of deciduous trees to turn each year. Along with her observations, she also muses on the significance of the changing of seasons and on life and death. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story with text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.