This worksheet contains 23 examples of figurative language from O. Henry's short stories for students to identify and explain.

This resource contains idiom worksheets with text-based questions and answer keys for each.

In this lesson, students delve more deeply into figurative language and conflict resolution as they read the novel "Jacob Have I Loved"

In this lesson, students practice analyzing word meanings by learning root words and affixes. They work in a variety of ways with a list of about 20 common but challenging words to learn the definition and spelling of each. Then students get in small groups to design and play the Make-a-Word card game, during which they must form complete words with three cards: a prefix, a root word, and a suffix.

This resource is a collection of discussion questions and resoures to supplement Sounder by William H. Armstrong.

Students will explore images from the Klondike and read White Fang closely to learn how to define and differentiate these terms, ultimately presenting their findings as nature and culture detectives.

In “Invocation” from John Brown’s Body, Stephen Vincent Benet calls on the muse of America to inspire him. He invokes the varied American landscape and the many kinds of people who have contributed to American culture and life. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

In this short story, a boy named Billy Weaver needs to find lodging in Bath, England. He goes to a boardinghouse. The landlady is an odd woman who compels Billy Weaver to stay with her at the boardinghouse. As the story progresses, clues are given as to the whereabouts of previous guests on the fourth floor.

In this lesson, students complete a literary analysis on a Shakespearean Sonnet, understand the language that empowers the piece, and gain inspiration from Shakespeare's words to write their own sonnet.

Students will read background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read "The Road Not Taken," and writes to analyze it for its figurative meaning. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Students will read a passage from Robert Louis Stevenson's work and write to answer questions in order to interpret the meaning of phrases. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

Summarize the plot of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Adapt passages of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" for a contemporary audience.

Analyze the characterization of Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Create an imaginative response to the conclusion of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Students will have the opportunity to use four of the Miss Breed letters as primary source documents. As students compare the writers’ differing points of view, they might see more clearly that the history of an event or period of time is never a single story.

The following series of activities for the classroom allow students to explore and interact with poetry by writing letters to poets.

This teacher's guide for Little Green by Chun Yu includes background information on the Cultural Revolution, discussion questions, activities, writing practices, and collaborative exercises.

In this lesson students examine how imagery is used to represent ideas, themes, periods of history, and make cultural connections to poem, "Still I Rise." Students will reflect through written expression how resiliency is in their lives, school, and community.

In this video from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, students will analyze an excerpt of the poem, "Caged Bird." Through discussion questions and a short activity, students will analyze the poem by doing a close reading of the text and examining the literary techniques used.

In this video from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, students will explore the Harlem Writers Guild, the oldest African American writers association in the world. Teaching tips suggest asking students to research the Harlem Writers Guild and to think about writing as part of a community.

In this video from American Masters | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, students will assess the persuasiveness of Maya Angelou’s argument that words have power. Students will also perform a tableau representing a tense and intimate moment between Angelou and Tupac Shakur.