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Middle School Literacy
Our literacy resources feature video tutorials and short, self-paced modules on specific concepts in literacy.
Literacy Lessons in Science and Social Studies
In this collection of 38 science and social studies-themed literacy lessons, students read primary and secondary texts on a variety of topics to learn and practice literacy standards.
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Exploring Vietnam War Stories
Explore the Vietnam War through the lens and personal stories of Maryland Veterans that experienced it first-hand.
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Voices of Baltimore: Life under Segregation
In this collection of 19 social-studies-themed literacy lessons, students read primary and secondary texts on a variety of science topics to learn and practice literacy standards.
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Writing in US History Collection
This collection contains six interactive, self-paced lessons for high school students. Each lesson provides an immersive look at a key topic in U.S. history integrated with tools to develop writing skills.
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Other Resources
The literature, life, and times of Edgar Allan Poe, in Baltimore and beyond.
Students learn about the rise of mass media and the popularity of the short story in this video from the American Masters film Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive.
In this interactive lesson, students explore the importance of setting in literature and apply their learning to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Students learn about the novel's underlying theme of enduring love, answer contextual questions, and expand vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Students learn about the various plots in the play and how they move it forward. Videos, text-dependent questions, and graphic organizers highlight what students need to know about the play's Athenian court.
Students learn about Frederick Douglass and explore the importance of literacy in his life.
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations of Percy Julian's struggles with racism and how he refused to let it limit his possibilities in life.
In this interactive lesson, students examine what Anne Frank’s writing and a video dramatization of her diary reveal about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding.
In this interactive lesson, students develop literacy skills as they explore an English language arts focus on internal and external conflict as a plot device.
In this interactive, blended lesson, students develop their literacy skills through an ELA focus on symbolism. Key strategies include making inferences, determining important information, comparing/contrasting ideas, and making connections.
In this interactive lesson, students learn about the cowbird through a documentary video and explore how the video uses personification as a literary device to present information about this bird.
In this interactice lesson, students learn to recognize an author’s purpose (to narrate, to describe, to inform, or to persuade) and analyze different writing techniques.
Students conduct research to help them write an explanation of a television program or video game project based on the theme of overcoming challenges.
Students use fiction and nonfiction text resources, as well as interactives and multimedia, to prepare an argumentative writing assignment to get classmates to stop bullying.
Students use fiction and nonfiction resources, multimedia, artwork, and photography to help them write an argument for or against a planned TV program about choices and how to make them.