This PDF allows students to read passages, identify the text structure, and write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. The handout will serve as a great means of practice to remediate, enrich, or extended students? knowledge about various types of text structures found in informational text.

In this problem-based learning module, students will investigate the importance of genetic diversity will be explored by examining several case studies revealing consequences that can occur in individuals within a limited gene pool and how a variety of genes can lead to the survival of a species. Students will be able to create and interpret information from pedigree charts.

Students lesson compare and contrast the traditional Three Little Pigs, by Golden Books to The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith. Students will discover how an author’s point of view can influence how a reader feels.

This multi-day lesson asks students to consider their own concepts of class and social status before diving into an analysis of those concepts in the novel, Pride and Prejudice. It concludes with students comparing the portrayal in the novel to a nonfiction text.

This PDF allows students to read six nonfiction passages, identify the main idea and text structure, and come up with an appropriate title for each text.

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.

After students have read Out of the Dust, they will create a Glogster. They will write about the theme, use their vocabulary words in writing, write using similes, metaphors, and personification in poetry, compare and contrast Billie Jo's experience to someone else in history, and be able to pick an option from a list. They will use their creativity to make their poster appealing to the reader.

In this lesson, students read the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley before comparing the statue from the poem to famous monuments from around the world. Students complete a graphic organizer before writing an analytical essay about the poem.

In this lesson, students will read and analyze several examples of different texts, identifying the different genres represented in each. Students brainstorm alone and together what they need as readers to read and understand multigenre texts successfully. Students share findings and discuss strategies needed to comprehend, and by extension to write, these texts.

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.

This lesson introduces several assignments related to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Students create powerpoint presentations that describe the case and crime from the novel, view the short horror film "The Strangers," and write an essay comparing the film and the novel.