In this lesson, students learn about the differences between inference and prediction, then review some strategies for making both. Students then create a chart to help them make inferences and predictions as they read.

In this lesson, students will use the individual experience of Mary McLeod Bethune to analyze choice, its affects on social equality, and impact on their own life experiences.

In this lesson, students read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

The following lesson plan uses Guy De Maupassant's "The Necklace" to guide students through a close annotated reading of the short story with an emphasis on insight, comprehension, analysis, characterization, structure, tone, and gathering of textual support.

This lesson uses a chart and shows three ways to use prediction-making to supplement the reading process. Students use the chart to make predictions either before, during, or after reading.

This lesson provides examples of how to incorporate a discussion of setting into other parts of short story analysis. Students consider the setting in addition to the characters and themes in an attempt to tie all of the elements of a story together.

This lesson encourages students to closely examine a singular aspect of a poem by writing a mirror poem: a poem that imitates another in a specific chosen way. Students read a poem, then write a mirror poem copying an element of the first one as a way of analyzing its use of a specific poetic technique.

This lesson asks students to make an informed decision about whether the suffering of the titular character in Edith Wharton's novel is a result of his personal actions and relationships or the society around him. Students perform close reading of several passages to aid in making their decision.

In this lesson, students are introduced to Peter Keating, a main antagonist of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Students receive background information from a powerpoint presentation before reading and paying attention to the relationships Keating develops in the novel.

In this lesson, students read and analyze the poem, Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Students consider how the poem reflects reality in its treatment of celebrity in discussion and graphic organizers.

What does close reading look like? This video shows students in an eighth-grade classroom are engaged in the close reading process for an EL Education 8th Grade ELA Lesson. The students discuss the complex non-fiction text, Unbroken, to deepen their understanding of the book’s central character and of the World War II era.

This lesson plan uses song lyrics to teach students to read and listen to poetry without letting personal bias influence their understanding of their reading. Students listen to a song as a class and analyze various details about the words, while also considering how perspective influences their understanding of it.

In this lesson plan, students discuss and analyze Robert Frost's poem Acquainted With The Night. Students read the poem together before analyzing its use of repetition, personification, and metaphor, and examining its potential themes.

This lesson has students carefully read and analyze "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. It allows for adaptation to cover any of several literary devices used in the poem. Also provided are three different ways for students to respond the poem.

In this lesson, students will use multiple intelligences to interpret and study Sonnets 29, 116, and 130 by William Shakespeare. Students will focus on metaphor, simile, mood, end rhyme, and iambic pentameter.

In this lesson, students construct their own carousel to go along with the one in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Students work in groups of four or five to create their carousel, including features designed to represent the fears and desires of the students creating it.

In this lesson plan, students analyze important speeches from past presidents. Students then attempt to write a speech for the current president.

In this lesson plan, students analyze a poem in groups on a very rigid schedule. Students read and annotate the poem, then prepare a three-minute presentation to the class about it.

In this lesson, students engage in a quick poetry analysis to practice key skills for reading poetry. Students first learn the details of the strategy before applying it to a poem.

In this lesson, students analyze songs as an introduction to poetry. Students search songs for examples of poetic devices and assemble them in a storyboard that matches each term with an illustration and a line from the song.