Read Like This: A Strategy for Analyzing Literary Nonfiction
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 learn strategies and practice close reading to determine the meaning of words in a slave narrative/literary nonfiction passage. (Lexile level: 1220)
ELA Literacy Lessons
Read Like This: Using Informational Text Strategies
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 learn how to read informational text, using Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" as an example. (Lexile level: 1050-1335)
Read Like This: Determining Theme in Literary Texts
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read excerpts from Virginia Woolf's "The New Dress" to determine a theme or central idea and analyze its development. (Lexile level: 850-1000)
Read Like This, Too: Finding Central Ideas and Details in a Literacy Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read excerpts from the memoir/slave narrative Twelve Years a Slave to practice skills for reading literary nonfiction with more confidence. (Lexile level: 1050-1335)
Read Like This: Central Idea and Supporting Details in Text
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read a short story called "The Yellow Wallpaper" and learn how specific details help to determine a central idea. (Lexile level: 1390)
So Much Character! – How Characters Help to Develop Theme
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne called "The Ambitious Guest" to analyze how characters develop over the course of a text. (Lexile level: 1110)
Extracting and Employing Evidence From Literacy Nonfiction
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read Plato's "An Allegory of the Cave" to learn how to identify evidence to explain the author's purpose and the meaning of multiple-meaning words. (Lexile level: 1370)
Researching With Reliable Web Sources
In this lesson, students in 10th grade learn essential skills needed to research a topic, which in this activity prepares them to read "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. (Lexile level: 1250-1335)
Read Like This: A Strategy for Close Reading
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 learn and practice close reading strategies using poems by Emily Dickinson and excerpts from Charles Dickens. (Lexile level: 1050-1335)
Change the View: Retell a Narrative Through Different Eyes
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 read a short story by Kate Chopin called "The Story of an Hour" to review elements of a narrative and point of view of the narrator. (Lexile level: 1070)
Research Simulation Task
In this lesson, students in grades 9-10 are given sources about bullying and asked tiered analytical questions. (Lexile level: 950)
Searching for Identity
Students use fiction and nonfiction resources, art, videos and interactives to write a narrative about an event that had an impact on who they are now and who they may become in the future.