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Authors Activities, Worksheets, Printables, and Lesson Plans

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Author Units on edHelper

Author Units on edHelper

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Read and Color

Who Is This Famous Author?

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Very Quick Readers
     Would You Like Some PIE with Your Author's Purpose? (Very Quick Reader; Grade 5-7 Readability)

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Short Readers
     Author's Purpose P.I.E. (Short Reader; Grade 4-6 Readability)
     Samuel Johnson, Author of the Dictionary? (Short Reader; Grade 6-8 Readability)

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Reading Comprehensions
     Authors at Work
     John Grisham - Author (Grades 4-6)
     Women Authors (Grades 5-7)
     Noah McCullough, Author (Grades 5-8)
     Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Native American Author and Educator (Grades 7-9)

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Literature Book Units
     A to Z Mysteries: The Absent Author (Grades 2-4)

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Read and Color Books

Julio and Nasim Learn About Friendship (PDF file)

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Reading Comprehension Lesson Ideas

Biographies (Grades 6-8)      Anne Morrow Lindbergh      Chris Van Allsburg - He Does It All      Dame Catherine Cookson      Dr. Seuss      Farley Mowat      Johanna Spyri      Marcel Proust      Nathaniel Hawthorne Miscellaneous (Grades 3-5)      Alexander McCall Smith      And Called It Macaroni      Andrew Clements      Ann McGovern      Arnold Lobel      Avi      Betsy Byars      Beverly Cleary      Beverly Cleary      Black Literature Leaders      David A. Adler      Debbie Dadey      Gail Gibbons      Gary Paulsen      George Stanley      Gerald McDermott      Gerald McDermott: Tale Spinner      Gertrude Chandler Warner      Horse-Thief Summer, Part 2      How the Cat Began      It Is Never Too Late      Jeff Brown      Judith Viorst      Kevin Henkes      Not a "Little" Writer      Paula Danziger      Pearls of Wisdom      Roald Dahl      Stan and Jan Berenstain      Those Fanciful Tales      Truth - Tell the Truth      Walter Dean Myers      You Can Write a Lune      You Can Write a Villanelle      Young Ben Franklin (Grades 6-8)      A Comet Captured on Film      A Dramatic Moment All to Yourself      A Sport with an Unusual Name! Curling      Aesop and His Fables      Alex Flinn      Ally Carter      An Exciting Discovery: The Nag Hammadi Library      At McDonald's      Avi      Barbara Park      Barbara Robinson      Books Tell the Story      Captain William Bligh      Carnaval      Characters      Charlie Chaplin - The Tramp      Charlotte, Emily, and Anne: The Bronte Sisters      Children's Day      Christmas Competition      Cindy Neuschwander      Cinquain      Different Ways of Analyzing the Text      E. L. Konigsburg      Eatonville      Election of Pope Benedict XVI      Elizabeth George Speare      Eoin Colfer      Finding the Main Idea      Foreshadowing      From the Swimming Hole to Swimming for Medals      Gary Schmidt      Getting to Know Your Textbook      Gloria Estefan      Gothic Literature      Great Britain      H. G. Wells      James Howe      James Ramsey Ullman      John Christopher      John Coy      Jonathan Swift      Karen Cushman      Karen Hesse      Laura Amy Schlitz      Letter from a Birmingham Jail      Life with a Skunk      Lucille Maud Montgomery      Markus Zusak      Medieval Books      Michael Scott      Mitch Albom      Monopolies, Cartels, and Trusts      Mood or Tone      Music Videos, Murder, and Weird Science      NAACP      Origami      Our Economy and the U.S. Constitution      Paul Fleischman      Pearl S. Buck      Phi-lan-thro-py      Pioneer African-American Writers      Plot      Responding to Literature      Robert Kimmel Smith      Robert Lawson      Robert Newton Peck      Roger Lancelyn Green      Senryu      Setting      Sharon Draper      Sherman Alexie, Jr.      Signal Words      Sinclair Lewis      Skimming and Scanning      Storms      Style      Submarine Earthquakes, Part II      Sun Wu      Symbols      The Bermuda Triangle      The Birth of the Hobbit      The Dr. Seuss Memorial Sculpture Garden      The Dust Bowl      The Gang's All Here!      The Good Word: A Few Important E-mail Rules to Follow      The Grand Old Party      The Land of the Dead      The Legacy of the Snowman      The Piltdown Man Hoax      The Pulitzer Prize      The Renaissance in France      The Ride of a Lifetime: Equestrian Vaulting      The Unsinkable Titanic      Theme      Thomas Jefferson      Understanding Point of View      Unicorns      Using Different Reading Rates      Walter Dean Myers: Urban Storyteller      What Are Literary Elements?      What Is a Collage?      What Is a Foreclosure?      What Is Scientology      What Is Scrapbooking?      Whitewater Rafting and Kayaking      Why Am I Reading This?      William Lyon Mackenzie      Women in the Civil War      Women in the Civil War      Write a Bio Poem      Write a Found Poem      Write a Haiku      Writing a Testimonial Biography      Writing List Poetry      Writing the Nonhuman Biography      Yoshiko Uchida      Zizou Corder: A Mother-Daughter Team (Grades 9-12)      A Dream Come True: ICODA      Anton Chekhov      Bay of Pigs      Biography of Frederic Chopin      Catherine the Great      Eoin Colfer      Ernest J. Gaines      FDR's New Deal - Social Security      Flannery O'Connor      Forgiveness      Helen Hunt Jackson Writes for the Native Americans      Ishmael Beah      Kate Chopin      Latin American Freedom Fighters, Part 2 - After the War      Lorraine Hansberry      Lune: the American Haiku      Malcolm X      Matty McNair: Polar Explorer      Ray Bradbury      Religion and Education      Robert Cormier      Robert Lipsyte      Ron Jones      Sean Stewart      Sharon Creech      The Differences between Italian, Spenserian, and English Sonnets      The Great American Newspaper War, Part 2 - Yellow Journalism      The Marva Collins Story: "A Brilliant Child Inside Every Student"      The Old Man of the Mountain      The Poetry Slam      Willa Cather      Write a Villanelle      Write a Villanelle Geography (Grades 3-5)      The Star-Spangled Banner      Walnut Grove, Minnesota (Grades 6-8)      Noah Webster      Ramona Quimby's Creator      Uruguay - Culture: Horacio Quiroga

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What Would You Do?
     Plagiarism: Would You Tell? (Grade 3-6)

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Reluctant Reader Books
     Meet Dr. Seuss (Grade 2-3)
     NH is for New Hampshire (Grade 3-5)
     Ogres (Grade 3-5)
     The ABCs of Baroque Music (Grade 3-5)
     ME is for Maine (Grade 3-6)
     Centaurs (Grade 4-6)
     IN is for Indiana (Grade 4-6)
     MA is for Massachusetts (Grade 4-6)
     MO is for Missouri (Grade 4-6)
     ND is for North Dakota (Grade 4-6)
     Oh, the Stories He Wrote! The Life of Dr. Seuss (Grade 4-6)
     PA is for Pennsylvania (Grade 4-6)
     WV is for West Virginia (Grade 4-6)
     The Legend Behind the Poem (Grade 4-7)
     Famous Cemeteries Around the World (Grade 6-8)

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Author Units on edHelper

Author Units on edHelper

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