This lesson plan is based on Willie Nelson lyrics, and the PBS feature on him. It focuses on brainstorming and choral reading skills. In addition to the lesson plan, there is information on how to do guided reading and choral reading.

This site features the author Elizabeth von Arnim including the full text of the novels The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight and The Solitary Summer.

Check out this site featuring lesson plans and other teaching ideas for William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This site offers several links to informative resources.

Discover more about the life and work of the author Edith Wharton when you visit this resource. This site features several links to lesson plans, biographical information, teaching guides, reviews, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students learn to use a glossary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of an Emperor Penguin by Robin Johnson and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF passage "If Rocks Could Talk!: Obsidian" from the American Museum of Natural History features an interview with an igneous rock named Obsidian. It is part of a paired text with "If Rocks Could...

This PBS series companion for The Roman Empire: Ancient Voices, The Social Order, and Life in Roman Times features a text and visual narrative about life in first century Rome.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This four-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Einstein in Time" features a timeline of Einstein's life. It is part of Paired Texts: "Everyday Einstein - Lasers" and "It's All Relative" (See link above...

This online library exhibit features the city, culture, people, and institutions of 19th Century New Orleans, Louisiana. The text is available in English and French.

Use the text or audio of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to consider the two learning outcomes below. Describe the major historical and cultural developments of the Enlightenment; explain key concepts. Describe the major conventions,...

This site focuses on Leo Tolstoy featuring links to his biography, and the full text of eight novels and one short story. These works include Anna Karenina, War and Peace, and The Death of Ivan Ilych.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Book of One Hundred Pictures by The American Sunday-School Union (c1884), features 100 pictures with a passage explaining each.

The Routes of English is a series of four six-week features on the development of English as a language, presented on BBC Channel 4 by host Melvyn Bragg. In addition, there are three special programs which deal with the language of the...

Learn about health risks faced by football players and write down your responses to evidence that football may be unsafe for children, in this interactive lesson featuring media from FRONTLINE: League of Denial. The lesson focuses on...

Text of the short story "A Predicament" by Edgar Allan Poe. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Preposterous Motive" by Susan Glaspell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "Present at a Hanging" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Priestly Prerogative" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess" by Anton Chekhov. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess" by Jack London. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Princess and the Puma" by O. Henry. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "A Princess of Grub Street" by James Branch Cabell. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Text of the short story "The Prisoners" by Guy de Maupassant. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)