This resource is a Common Core aligned reading passage with a textual analysis question about the lesson derived from the story.

This website provides information and pictures of the most common organisms that live in fresh water.

Some of the most the most essential works of literature in the world are examples of epic poetry, such as The Odyssey and Paradise Lost. This lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and to its roots in oral tradition.

In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.

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 resource is a nonfiction, Common Core aligned reading passage with a textual analysis question about main idea and inference.

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

From Scholastic Inc., this lesson guides students through citing textual evidence in an informational article. Includes the article, vocabulary and students worksheets.

This resource includes a video and a text article about tornadoes and scientists who attempt to study the storms by chasing them.

Students take a quiz to access personal information. Students complete an opinion survey about privacy and compare their answers to classmates and a Canadian Research Study. In "Who Knows What About Me?" students assess how much personal information has been collected about them. Students assume the roles of various organizations to determine what information is necessary to collect, and where collection of personal information becomes invasive. Experts are invited from the community to participate in a discussion about privacy issues, and in "It Could Happen to You" students write endings to stories that feature privacy related scenarios.

After an overview of the events surrounding Paul Revere's famous ride, this lesson challenges students to think about the reasons for that fame. Using both primary and secondhand accounts, students compare the account of Revere's ride in Longfellow's famous poem with actual historical events, in order to answer the question: why does Revere's ride occupy such a prominent place in the American consciousness?

Explore the traditions and conventions of haiku and compare this classic form of Japanese poetry to a related genre of Japanese visual art.

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

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "ecosystem." An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.

In this lesson, students read excerpt 5, focusing on Douglass's failed escape attempt. They will focus on identifying different types of figurative language.

This encyclopedia entry is for the term "ozone layer." The ozone layer is one layer of the stratosphere, the second layer of the Earth?s atmosphere. The stratosphere is the mass of protective gases clinging to our planet. This entry discusses what the ozone layer does for us and how we are impacting the layer. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.

This encyclopedia entry is for the term "precipitation." Precipitation is any type of water that forms in the Earth's atmosphere and then drops onto the surface of the Earth. Water vapor, droplets of water suspended in the air, builds up in the Earth's atmosphere. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "rain." Rain is liquid precipitation: water falling from the sky. Raindrops fall to Earth when clouds become saturated, or filled, with water droplets. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.