IN this lesson ,students will learn how a storyteller can bring a story to life. They will identify the tools of a storyteller by watching The People Could Fly video, as well as listening to the first read through of Excerpt 4 and using the Storyteller's Toolbox anchor chart as a guide.

In his essay, Mandela explains his shifting understandings of freedom based on different stages in his life. Mandela explains how his perceptions of freedom evolved from wanting freedom for just himself to fighting for freedom for others, and concluding that denying freedom to others robs the oppressors of their own freedom. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This resource is a Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and characterization.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea, characterization and inferences.

Newsmap.jp is an online news aggregator-portal that uses a colorful graphical "treemap" to visually reflect the constantly changing nature of the Google News news aggregator. Newsmap's objective is to demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media.

A short video resource that helps student decipher newspaper articles including the who, what, where, when and why.

A nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage, this handout contains textual analysis and inference questions along with central idea skills.

An interactive resource that guides students to finding what they're looking for in a newspaper, reading headlines to predict what articles will be about, and locating information in the paper.

A nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage, this handout contains textual analysis and inference questions along with central idea skills.

Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.

Poets achieve popular acclaim only when they express clear and widely shared emotions with a forceful, distinctive, and memorable voice. But what is meant by voice in poetry, and what qualities have made the voice of Langston Hughes a favorite for so many people?

A nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage, this handout contains textual analysis and inference questions along with central idea skills.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and supporting details.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and supporting details. Also incuded are mutiple choice textual analysis questions.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade English Language Arts.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade ELA. 

SQ3R is a comprehension strategy that helps students think about the text they are reading while they're reading. Often categorized as a study strategy, SQ3R helps students "get it" the first time they read a text by teaching students how to read and think like an effective reader.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and textual support.

This resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and textual support. Contain multiple choice contextual questions.

This resource is a Common Core aligned reading passage with textual analysis questions about main idea and characterization.