Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...

This instructional activity focuses on the types of reading material and their distinguishing features. It also included two videos including the key features from a newspaper story video and a video that defines scholarly articles.

In this lesson outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.

Lesson that introduces the concepts of nonfiction to elementary students. Through reading and interactive lessons, students engage the genre of nonfiction and begin to write their own examples.

Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....

An assortment of reading mini-projects are included on this site. Reading skills worksheets and differentiated reading activities are also included.

This lesson focuses on the short story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte who uses stereotypical but realistic characters to invent the culture of the "Old West." This story is an example of Regionalism, a sbu-genre of Realism....

A series of three lesson plans and printable graphic organizers designed to help students find the key traits of the myth, fable, and fairy tale genres.

This famous "Ghost," story is especially popular around Halloween. Read the original version by Washington Irving here.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before reading can aid...

This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that a biography tells the story of a person's life.

This lesson focuses on dramatic irony including what it is, it's purpose, examples in various genre, and a practice exercise. RL.11-12.6 Irony/Satire/etc

Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...

Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...

Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...

Contains plans for three lessons about love poetry that ask students to review the genre before writing their own. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the United Nations and its leader Ban Ki-moon from South Korea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Comprehensive site delves into the reading and study of Vergil's master work, "The Aeneid". Begins with discussions about the genre of epic and the historical events that influenced Vergil's work. Finally, the author gives a multitude of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and verify facts and...

This multimedia tour of Salsa dancing includes general background information, a chronology of salsa, sound and video clips, biographies on salsa artists, and resources for further reading and research. Also included is a "Salsa...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a making a scent to represent the breath of a Tyrannosaurus rex. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists studying the safety of roller coasters. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A museum curator tells visitors about the life of Abraham Lincoln. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.