literature

Provides graphic organizers, chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, vocabulary, and activities for teaching Dan Gutman's "The Homework Machine" in grades five and six.

Provides background information and chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, vocabulary, and activities for teaching Judy Blume's "Double Fudge" in grades three and four.

Presents resources for teaching "No Talking, " in which the noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. Includes a summary, a profile of the author, pre-reading and culminating activities, vocabulary exercises, and discussion questions.

Presents resources for teaching Jack Gantos's "Joey Pigza Loses Control" to fifth and sixth grade students, including a summary, author profile, pre-reading and culminating activities, vocabulary exercises, discussion questions, and activities for each section.

Contains resources for teaching Polly Horvath's "Everything on a Waffle" to fifth and sixth grade students, including a summary, author profile, pre-reading and culminating activities, vocabulary exercises, discussion questions, and activities for each chapter.

A quirky teacher swallows a desk and multiple other items to decorate a classroom in this adaptation of the familiar folk song.

Starting at ?The Beginning? and concluding with ?The End?, chapters range from the familiar, such as ?Character?, ?Narrative? and ?The Author?, to the more unusual, such as ?Secrets?, ?Pleasure? and ?Ghosts?. Illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter.

A collection of writings, including poetry, drama, essays, and non-fiction, from influential Western writers from ancient times through the seventeenth century.

An instructional guide for Cynthia Rylant's book "Henry and Mudge, the First Book" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.