Other Skills: Character Traits Compare and Contrast Context Clues Fact and Opinion Figurative Language Main / Central Idea Point of View Rhythm & Rhyme Story Elements Summary Symbolism Theme
With a little fairy dust, we can all fly to Neverland by reading J. M. Barrie’s wonderful fantasy “Peter Pan.” This Reading S...
The French Revolution began in 1789 and took the idea of modern democracy from the fledgling United States to Europe. A perio...
Macabre, dark, foreboding; these adjectives are often used to describe the works of Edgar Allan Poe. While this is true of ma...
Many have seen the movie, "The Wizard of Oz," based on L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." While it is a great ...
Lewis Carroll's iconic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a journey with little Alice through a fantastical world full of va...
Abigail Adams’ letters to her husband, John Adams, reveals much of the inner workings of the early Founding Fathers. In this ex...
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address to Congres...
by Abraham Lincoln
Noted for its beautiful and compelling language, Abr...
Students will read a passage about the tricoteuses, the knitting women who sat near the guillotine during the French Revolution...
by Helen Keller from The Story of My Life
Chapter XVIII passage: After overcoming an early chi...