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A Guide to Basketball
The article gives factual information about the when, where and how the game of basketball began and how it is played. (Houghton Miffli…
Lessons designed to highlight the ELA/literacy Shifts and expectations of college- and career-ready standards
Lessons specifically designed to highlight the ELA/literacy Shifts and expectations of college- and career-ready standards
The article gives factual information about the when, where and how the game of basketball began and how it is played. (Houghton Miffli…
Allie has a new basketball. She has a hard time finding someone to play with her because they believe basketball is a boys’ game.…
Pilot Amelia Earhart and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are good friends and one night, after dinner at the White House, Amelia then offe…
Diphtheria has broken out in Nome, Alaska. Teams of sled dogs carry medicine 800 miles over snow and ice to prevent an epidemic. Everyo…
Janey’s father is an immigrant worker and this forces Janey and her family to move around every few months, but Janey finds a fri…
Young Jose’ Mendez is a terrific centerfielder but a weak hitter. Jose’ wants his father to be proud of him. When his fathe…
Donovan asks his grandmother for advice as to what he should do with his collection of words in a jar, and she shows Donovan how he can…
During the Mexican Revolution, a heroic mother, Elena, struggles to protect her family after her husband dies from an accident, and she…
Pablo Pizzaro, Idaville’s greatest boy artist, enters a New Nose Now contest, and sculpts a new nose for a statue of Abraham Linc…
In this text, students learn about the daily role of a firefighter and the importance of firefighters in communities past and present. …
A poor but generous old woman gives two roguish travelers a night’s lodging and a dinner that includes slices of her treasured ha…
Life in the Grunt tribe changes when a baby dinosaur hatches from the huge egg that Little Grunt drags home for brunch. (Houghton Miffl…
The story follows the lives of three new-born wolves over a ten and one half month period. It encompasses the various stages thro…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. The students will lea…
This personal narrative introduces the genre of a diary to the students. “My Diary from Here to There,” takes the rea…
More than one Maria in class causes Maria Isabel to worry for weeks about not being in the pageant, when the teacher confuses their nam…
Detective Nate the Great searches San Francisco for a lost joke book. He discovers that the wrong place can be the best place to look f…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Puffins raise their y…
Police Officer Buckle gives safety speeches that no one listens to until a police dog, Gloria, joins him. Because Gloria acts out the s…
A raja decrees that the villagers must give most of the rice they harvest to him. He promises to store it safely and distribute it in t…
Pepita stops speaking Spanish because she is tired of being the neighborhood translator. However, when a disaster nearly occurs, Pepita…
In this play, Red Writing Hood does not like the way her fairy tale ends, so she decides to change the events of her own fairy tale by …
Rosie is a Tibetan terrier whose friendly nature makes her a perfect visiting dog. After a lot of training, she brings comfort to peopl…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. The Saguaro Cactus is…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Anna and Caleb Wittin…
Young Louis Armstrong, “Satchmo,” longs to play the horn, but his family has no money for such things. He was inspire…
Thomas and his Grandfather share a small house with, their cat and pet duck. One day Thomas’s great-aunt Linzy comes to stay for …
In this play, the neighborhood baker Manuel bakes delicious smelling pastries and puts them out for sale each morning, but his neighbor…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Djeow Seow is the sma…
Marisol watches her neighbors excited about making a vacant lot beautiful, so she hunts and hunts and finds her own little patch where …
Before they ever met her, Rory and Derek made a pact not to speak to Bolivia, the new girl in town. After Bolivia orchestrates a …
The Olympic Games have grown and changed since the first contests were held in Ancient Greece. However, one aspect of the games remains…
Julian meets Gloria, a new girl in his neighborhood. Together they make a wish kite, with wishes fastened to its tail; both wish for la…
Benny is nervous about the upcoming talent show. After a talk with her parents, Beany realizes that the most important thing is doing w…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. A boy named Taro help…
TJ takes a trip to Vietnam with his mother to visit his grandparent’s farm. TJ learns a lot about the culture and lives of …
A wildlife photographer describes her love for animals and how she took some of her favorite up-close photos of them. (Houghton Mifflin…
In this narrative, Gary Paulsen describes the relationship, which develops between himself and a dog named “Storm,” the lea…