This lesson from CommonLit features English writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) "A Room of One's Own." In this piece, Woolf discusses how the experiences of women pursuing artistic passions have differed from those of men. Through this lesson, students will explore word choice, tone, and figurative language and how these elements contribute to Woolf's point of view. A number of paired texts on similar themes, writing style, and point of view are provided to give students options to compare and contrast various texts.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects.

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, chronicles the education of leading chemist Percy Julian. Although Julian began his elementary school years in the Deep South under Jim Crow laws, he became one of the few African Americans of his time to earn a Ph.D.

CommonLit provides this resource which features Caribbean American writer Jamaica Kincaid well-known for her essays, stories, and novels. Her writing often includes personal portrayals of family relationships set in her native Antigua. In "Girl," a mother lectures her daughter on society's expectations for women. To support student's understanding of the themes in the story, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style. This text can be paired with "Math Isn't Just for Boys," by Rachel Crowell.

Learn about the lives of gorillas born in captivity in this video segment from Nature.

What happens to a dream deferred? That is the question posed by Langston Hughes in his poem "Harlem." This resource provided by CommonLit support 5th graders in addressing this question. To support student's understanding of the themes, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style.

This resource from CommonLit offers resources based on the work of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry honoree Gwendolyn Brooks from the short story "Home." To support student's understanding of the themes in the story, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as additional texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style.

This resource from CommonLit offers a lesson plan based on the poetry of American poet Emily Dickinson: "Hope" is the Thing with Feathers - (254 To support student's understanding of the themes in the poem, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as poems with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style.

This lesson plan was developed by English Teacher Regina Keels in collaboration with local poet, historian, and writer Richard Schrader.  In this lesson, students will learn about the 1848 Slave Rebellion that led to the emancipation of enslaved Afticans in the Danish West Indies and write and present their own expression of the events. 

This 5th grade informational, scientific text from CommonLit explains how cells, the smallest unit of a living organism, make up every living thing in the world. To support student's understanding of the informational text, teachers have access to the annotation tool and they can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as other informational texts for comparison.

In this resource offered by CommonLit, Raachel Crowell discusses the disproportionately large number of boys who participate in math competitions and pursue math-related careers. Where are all the girls? That is the question. In this informational text, Crowell discusses researchers' attempt to answer this question. To support student's understanding of the text, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts and pair with other informational texts also offered by CommonLit.

In this informational text, provided by CommonLit, Colin Hickey describes Jordan Messan Benissan, a musician from West Africa, and how he gets school-aged children excited about music. To support student's understanding of the themes, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style. This text can be paired with another informational text "Poetry Means the World to Me," by Tony Medina.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make.

Open Up Resources provides openly accessible curriculum for English Language Arts. Grounded in research, the curriculum supports all learners and celebrates diverse cultures. Explore the resources here centered around student-voice, active learning, and critical thinking. Check out the EdReports rating for 2022.

This resource from CommonLit features American poet Tony Medina who celebrates Langston Hughes in his book Love to Langston. Medina uses poetry to tell the story of Langston Hughes' life and the importance of poetry as he imagines Hughes would have told it. To support student's understanding of the themes, teachers can access guiding questions, assessment questions and discussion prompts as well as texts with similar themes literary devices, topics and writing style.

Grade 2: Module 4 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. In this module, students build their literacy and social-emotional skills through the analysis of literary and informational texts, as they engage in a study of how to care for and conserve the world of pollinators. For more information on getting started with the curriculum, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org.

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The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.