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This video segment from Jakers! features a storyteller who tells a Pourquoi story about Anansi, the spider, a popular character in African folklore.

Follow Irish poet Seamus Heaney through his poem, "Blackberry-Picking," featured in this video segment from Poetry Breaks. Like many of Heaney's poems, Blackberry-Picking combines the power of memory and nature.

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[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students classify and categorize based on real and make-believe.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Let's make a cake! Students will identify sequence words in a procedural text and use those clues to identify where the step belongs in a procedural text. The end result will be a yummy cake!

Both students and teachers can find podcasts that can be subscribed to, or downloaded to a computer or any MP3 playing device. Most are free and those that carry a fee are clearly marked. The best place to start is under the Education...

This is an animated video of the poem "I started Early-Took my Dog" by Emily Dickinson by Poetry Everywhere. Also included is a link to the poem from Poetry Foundations. [1:33]

An introduction to the Jalna series, "sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954." Read about this fictional family, learn what critics have said its content and author, Mazo de la Roche, and...

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[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.

This lesson plan will allow students to understand why Fairy Tales have good and evil characters and identify good and evil characters in a Fairy Tale.

In this lesson, students will watch a video clip with a Native American storyteller telling a traditional story. Students will use supporting evidence from the story to give meaning to oral and written texts.

This Victorian Web site defines realism as used in literature and as a "nineteenth-century movement that believed novelists and painters should concentrate on describing the physical, material details of life."

This introductory note to 20th century British literature presents links to informative sites for student research and lists of authors.

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