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Literacy Resources

Original

Booklists

  1. Regional USA titles from states A-M and states N-Z
  2. Native American experiences
  3. Asians in picture books
    [Japanese-Americans in WW II]
  4. Titles from Central and South America
  5. War experiences in books
  6. Immigrants in literature and URL immigration resources.
  7. Children Working in America
  8. Child Labor Categories
  9. Booklist of 1600s colonial America resources
  10. American Revolution Period books of the 1700s.
  11. Resources for Native American contact with early colonists.
  12. Slavery-related and early African-American contribution resources.
  13. Underground Railroad, Abolitionist, Fugitive Slaves mid-1800s.
  14. Click on "challenge" under each Westward Expansion topic for frontier category-related URL and book suggestions.
  15. Cinderella versions
  16. American, regional tall tales
  17. A booklist of mythology and legends
  18. Ancient Civilizations of Egypt, China, Mesopotamia resources
  19. Books composed in diary format.
  20. Theme of lobsters
  21. Rainforests

Project-based
Curriculum
Products
  1. Student Colonial Writings
  2. Student westward expansion journals
  3. Student slave narratives


Theme-related
curriculum
challenges
  1. Colonial simulation
  2. Revolutionary Period Index - ELA and Math activities
  3. Activity - Use of 1600s Passenger Lists to colonies
  4. Original colonial town meeting simulation based on "My Brother Sam Is Dead" by Collier
  5. Westward Expansion activities
  6. Abolitionism activities

The Genres
  1. Realistic fiction
  2. Fantasy
  3. Mystery
  4. Biographical sketch and Interviews
  5. Historical Fiction - key questions
  6. Nonfiction
    • Newspaper format applied from a Harry Potter challenge
  7. Picture Books - Looney Letters
  8. Alphabet Books - Colonial Alphabet Book | Alphabet Books prepare for the Phantom Tollbooth
  9. Student Poetry - Sharing | "War Is . . . " | Ballad of Looney | Rainforest Acrostics
  10. Thematic poetry
  11. Tall tales
  12. Songs of the USA

Literary
Basics
and Enrichment
Activities
  1. Readers Workshop
  2. The potential of Literature Circles
  3. Storytelling
  4. Drama
  5. Creative Dramatics
  6. Choral Reading - Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee
  7. Readers Theater - Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too | Yeh Shen
  8. Puppetry
  9. Music and Songs - Parody - "Yankee Doodle"


Writing
Domains
  1. Narrative/descriptive
    1. Modeled on What If
    2. Modeled on Free to Be . . . . You and Me
  2. Practical/ informational
  3. Analytical/Expository (challenges)
    1. based on . . . If You Lived in Colonial Times
    2. based on Valley Forge
  4. Sensory/descriptive

Social
Studies
Timelines
for
reference

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