Activities, readings and quizzes with answer keys for a variety of levels to help students identify and/or reveal story structures in seleceted passages.

Worksheets with answer keys for a variety of levels to help students identify and/or reveal story structures in seleceted passages.

Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading. Initially teachers create the graphic organizers, but as students become more comfortable with using structured notes they are able to construct their own, matching the structure of their graphic organizer to the structure of the texts they read.

The TPCASTT template will allow students to think deeply during close reading and analysis of poetry. TPCASTT is appropriate for upper elementary through high school.

This PDF allows students to read five nonfiction passages about the American War for Independence. Students will determine the structure of each passage, include information on their graphic organizers, and create visual representations of each text.

Lessons, activities and quizzes on identifying varying text structures including cause and effect, narrative, chronological, cause and effect, sequence, and process structures.

Worksheets with answer keys for a variety of levels to help students identify and/or reveal text structures in seleceted passages.

This resource includes one story and a short expository text, eleven text-dependent questions (including one optional constructed-response prompt for students), and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

This teacher's guide for Totally Joe by James Howe contains discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.

This teacher's guide to Tracks by Diane Lee Wilson includes a summary of the text, discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.

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.

This lesson is an internet-based inquiry into the Virginia Tech Massacre and Nikki Giovanni’s poetic response. This lesson ties informative reading and inquiry with the craft of poetry and the role of poetry as catharsis. Students will also understand firsthand the difference in reading a poem and the experiencing it as a public performance.