Here are some specific novels with lesson plans and some available reading resources online for literature. This includes novels, stories, reading, mini lesson plans, and reading ideas.
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Begin here with introductions to novels and why we read them.
The above link has some general worksheets that you can do with any novel. It also has lesson plans
It also has some good suggestions for teaching mythology.
Here's an outstanding page for people looking for some specific novels.
Want to teach about the movie "The Postman". Here's lesson plans and ideas.
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Reading novels or AR books? Try these links found in alphabetical order.
Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Jacob Have I Loved (There is much information about the author Katherine Patterson.)
The Island of the Blue Dolphin
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Links for teachers reading: Bunnicula:
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If you are reading Number the Stars:
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If you are reading Across Five Aprils, visit these links:
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Abraham Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russel
Freedman
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin
Aztec Legends
Baseball in April by Gary Soto
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
Canyons by Gary Paulsen
La Casa en Mango Street por Sandra Cisneros (in Spanish only)
Catherine Called Birdie by Karen Cushman
The Cay by Ted Taylor
Charles Dickens: An Author Unit
The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury
The Egypt Game by Elizabeth Keatley Snyder
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverly Naimoo
The Legend of La Llorona by Rudolfo Anaya
Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
Lyddie (from Kroc MS) by Katherine Patterson
Lyddie (from Memorial) by Katherine Patterson
Madeleine L'Engle: An Author Unit
Maroo of the Winter Caves by Anne Turnbull
Mayan Culture
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street by Rod Serling
Native American Poetry
The Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
The Odyssey by Homer (for ELD students)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Patchwork of Cultures: A Thematic Unit (includes Chrysanthemum by
Kevin Henkes, The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Palacco and The House
on
Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros)
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
Pyramid by David Macaulay
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Saleng (A Pilipino Folk Tale)
Salmon Boy (A Haida Legend)
Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson
Song of the Sky Loom by Tewa Indian
To Be A Slave by Julius Lester
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
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Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
The Forgotten Heroes (Buffalo Soldiers) by Clinton Cox
Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling
The Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L.
Konigsburg
The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
A Jar Of Dreams by Yoshiko Ochida
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
Nettie's Trip South by Ann Turner
The Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
Patty Reed's Doll by Rachel K. Laurgaard
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth G. Speare
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Treasure in the Stream: The Story of a Gold Rush Girl by Dorothy
and Thomas Hoobler
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
The White Stallion by Eizabeth Shub
The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty Bao Lord
Zia by Scott O'Dell
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Resources
for:
Alice in Wonderland
Catch-22
Don Quixote
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Gulliver's Travels (1)
Gulliver's Travels (2)
The Interpretation of Dreams
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Lord of the Flies
Moby-Dick
The Odyssey (1)
The Odyssey (2)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Plato's Republic
The Prince
The Red Badge of Courage
The Scarlet Letter
Sun Tzu's Art of War
Tales from the Brothers Grimm (1)
Tales from the Brothers Grimm (2)
Walden
The War of the Worldss
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There are many excellent teachers' guides for many books found at this address.
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Dubliners by James Joyce
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light by Judy Chicago
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Nectar In A Sieve by Kamala Markandaya
The Odyssey by Homer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selected Horror Short Stories of Stephen King
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Teaching Tips Using Audio Cassettes in Literature Classes by Rose
Reissman
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Looking for authors? Check these out:
Author Information created by Ms. Norris's English class
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These are just some interesting links that might work for you in reading.
Multimedia ideas for Anne of Green Gables, Summer of the Swan, Ivanhoe, It's a Wonderful Life, Dobie Gillis, Uncle Scrooge, The Notebook Test
Lesson Plan for "Banner in the Sky"
Looking at types of traditional literature
7th and 8th - Fractured Fairy Tales
Sixth Grade Teachers be sure and check this one out. Writing tall tales?
Descriptive Character Analysis
cooperative group lesson on comparing and contrasting
Helping your students find a hero in reading
Unit on Families and appropriate literature
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Some advanced novels:
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Here's a guide for writing a book report.
Share a book you liked with another student.
Looking for a novel or piece of literature that interests you and is not here, then go to hotbot and type in the book title.
Choose "the exact phrase" and then search. It is possibly on the Web and I haven't seen it.
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