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1. Reading: Nonfiction: Newspapers & Magazines

Local Interest Newspapers

Student Interest Newspapers

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A Kid's News Network" Fodder for Young Minds
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Big News for Little People
National Geographic for Kids
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Teaching Kids the News
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Time 4 Kids
Timeforkids.com
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Canadian Geographic
Live Science Reports
National Geographic
Nature.com Online Reports
New Scientist
NOVA
One World Magazine
PBS Nature
PLUS Magazine
Popular Science
The Science Daily
The Science Magazine
Scientific American
Sky and Telescope
The Scientist
World Scientists
ABC Science
The Awesome Library
BioInteractive
Discovery Planet
How Stuff Works
NOAA Quest
National Geo: Kids: Animals
Ant Boy's BugWorld
The Bug Club
The Wonderful World of Insects

Wide Interest Newspapers

2. Reading: Fiction: Novels, Short Stories and Flash Fiction

Reading Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction Online

Reading the Classics Online

Alcott 01: Little Women
Lousia May Alcott: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Alcott 02: Little Men
Lousia May Alcott: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Alcott 03: Jo's Boys
Lousia May Alcott: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Alcott 04: Under the Lilacs
Lousia May Alcott: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Black Beauty
Anne Sewell: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Carroll 01: Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Carroll 02: Alice's Adventures Underground
Lewis Carroll: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Crusoe 1: Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Crusoe 2: The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
John S. C. Abbott: Kids 4 Classics: In Chapters!
Dickens 01: A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dickens 02: Great Expectations
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dickens 03: Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dickens 04: A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dickens 05: David Copperfield
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dickens 06: Bleak House
Charles Dickens: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dolittle 1: Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dolittle 2: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Conan Doyle: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Doyle: The Hounds of the Baskervilles
Conan Doyle: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dracula
Bram Stoker: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dumas 01: The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas:The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dumas 02: The Man with the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas:The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Dumas 03: The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley:The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Heidi
Johanna Spyri: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
London 01: The Call of the Wild
Jack London: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
London 03: White Fang
Jack London: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Melville 01: Moby Dick
Herman Melville: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Melville 02: Billy Budd
Herman Melville: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery: Anne of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery: Anne of the Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery: Anne's House of Dreams
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery: The Chronicles of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Montgomery:Further Chronicles Of Avonlea
Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 01: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 02: The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 03: Ozma of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 04: Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 05: The Road to Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 06: The Emerald City of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 07: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 08: Tik-Tok of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 09: The Scarecrow of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 10: Rinkitink in Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 11: The Lost Princess of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 12: The Tin Woodman of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 13: The Magic of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
OZ 14: Glinda of Oz
L. Frank Baum: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie: Kids 4 Classics: In Chapters!
Stevenson 01: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Stevenson 02:Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Stevenson 03:Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini): Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Kids 4 Classics: In Cha[ters!
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame: The Classic Reader:: In Chapters!
Twain 01: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Twain 02: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Twain 03: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!
Twain 04: The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain: The Classic Reader: In Chapters!

Reading: Short Stories Online

3. Reading: Poems Online

001. The Arrow and the Song
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
002. When I heard the Learned Astronomer
Walt Whitman
003. First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
004. The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
005. Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
006. Casey at the Bat
Ernest Thayer
007. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
008. Traveling through the Dark
William Stafford
009. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
010. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Emily Dickinson
011. Enter Patient
William Ernest Henley
012. My Funeral: Hazim Hickmet
My Funeral: Hazim Hickmet
013. The Golf Links
Sarah N. Cleghorn
014. In the Desert
Stephen Crane
015. Death Be Not Proud
John Donne
016. The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake
017. Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
018. Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
Robert Burns
019. To a Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
Robert Burns
020. Richard Cory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
021. Height of the Ridiculous
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
022. The Tide Rises the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
023. The Wound Dresser
Walt Whitman
024. It’s No Use
Sappho
025. Don't Ask Me What to Wear
Sappho
026. The Barefoot Boy
John Greenleaf Whittier
027. This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
028. Big Rock Candy Mountain
Harry McClintock
029. No Man Is an Island
John Donne
030. Ozymandias
Percy Shelley
031. Carving a Name: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Horatio Alger, Jr.
032. The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
033. The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
034. Defence of Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
035. Warning
Jenny Joseph
036. We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
037. The Naming of Cats
T.S. Eliot
038. Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
039. Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
040. The Owl and the Pussycat
Edward Lear
041. She Walks in Beauty
George Gordon Byron
042. This Is Just to Say
Williams Carlos Williams
043. The Blind Men and the Elephant
John Godfrey Saxe
044. The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams
045. If
Rudyard Kipling
046. Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson
047. America
Walt Whitman
048. They Say That Time Assuages
Emily Dickinson
049. Pioneers! Oh, Pioneers!
Walt Whitman
050. Homage to a Government
Phillip Larkin
051. Invictus
William Ernest Henley
052. Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
053. I Write in the Laundrymat
Marcy Sheiner
054. We Are More
Shane Koyczan
055. Advice From A Speedskater
Priscila Uppal
056.Typhus
Louis Simpson
057. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
058. To a Mouse
Robert Burns
059. Why I Am Not a Painter
Frank O’Hara
060. Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
061. By My New Banana Plant
Matsuo Basho
062. Poet’s Work
Lorine Niedecker
063. The Secret Heart
Robert Peter Tristam Coffin
064. Bread and Roses
James Oppenheim
065. The House
Charles Bukowski
066. The Houses
Rudyard Kipling
067. The House With Nobody In It
Joyce Kilmer
068. For a War Memorial
G. K. Chesterton
069. The Tyger
William Blake
070. Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
071. Knows How to Forget
Emily Dickinson
072. yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate
e. e. cummings
073. Allegory of the Supermarket
Stephanie Brown
074. My Children-Home I See Again
Abraham Lincoln
075. So Long
Walt Whitman
076. First Day of School
Robert McGough
077. Starting from Paumanok
Walt Whitman
078. Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
079. The Book-Worms
Robert Burns
080. Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
Portia Nelson
081. To Autumn
John Keats
082. Autumn Love
Li Ching Chao
083. Autumn Movement
Carl Sandburg
084. Room
Chris Hutchinson
085. Boots
Rudyard Kipling
086. The Blue Seuss
Terrance Hayes
087. At the Galleria Shopping Mall
Tony Hoagland
088. Miss Thompson Goes Shopping
Martin Armstrong
089. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Mary Elizabeth Frye
090. There is Pleasure in the Pathless Woods
Lord George Gordon Byron
091. The Hand
Mary Ruefle
092. Snow Day
Billy Collins
093. The Snow Is Melting
Kobayashi Issa
094. Goalkeeper Joe
Marriott Edgar
095. The Worker and the Tramp
Jack London
096. We’ll Go No More A-roving
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron
097. First Love
John Clare
098. Maple Syrup
Donald Hall
099. Song of Three Soldiers
Stephen Vincent Benet
100. Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes
101. Incident
Countee Cullen
102. Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
Edna St. Vincent Millay
103. Memorabilia
Robert Browning
104. The Last Rose of Summer
Thomas Moore
105. Chicago
Carl Sandburg
106. Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly
Li Po
107. The Hangman
Maurice Ogden
108. The Angry Man
Phyllis McGinley
109. Our Lady of Perpetual Help
April Lindner
110. A Litany for Survival
Audre Lorde
111. Constitution
Habib Jalib
112. Children
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
113. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Richard Brautigan
114. The Child Ballads
Andrew Bartin: Anonymous
115. I am Waiting
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
116. Delight in Disorder
Robert Herrick
117. Alphabet
Catherine French
118. Ode to Marbles
Max Mendelsohn
119. Touring the Doll Hospital
Amy Gerstler
120. Rain in Summer
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
121. A Psalm of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
122. Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer
Chris Forhan
123. Fire and Ice
Robert Frost
124. Your Attention Please
Peter Porter
125. Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
126. Three Frankenstein Poems
Edward Field
127. Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins
128. Sidekicks
Ronald Koertge
129. The Summer I Was Sixteen
Geraldine Connolly
130.The Blue Bowl
Jane Kenyon
131. Lines
Martha Collins
132. The Distances
Henry Rago
133. “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"
Ron Koertge
134. Numbers
Mary Cornish
135. The Cord
Leanne O’Sullivan
136. At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
William Stafford
137. The Bat
Theodore Roethke
138. Did I Miss Anything?
Tom Wayman
139. Neglect
R. T. Smith
140. The Poet
Tom Wayman
141. Radio
Laurel Blossom
142. Bad Day
Kay Ryan
143. The Farewell
Edward Field
144. The Partial Explanation
Charles Simic
145. Dorie Off To Atlanta
Mark Halliday
146. Wheels
Jim Daniels
147. Remora, Remora
Thomas Lux
148. Tour
Carol Snow
149. After Us
Connie Wanek
150. Domestic Work, 1937
Natasha Trethewey
151. Before She Died
Karen Chase
152. Poetry
Don Paterson
153. Foundations
Leopold Staff
154. Advice from the Experts
Bill Knott
155. One Morning
Eamon Grennan
156. Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon
Dave Etter
157. Publication Date
Franz Wright
158. The Meadow
Kate Knapp Johnson
159. Cartoon Physics, part 1
Nick Flynn
160. The Printer's Error
Aaron Fogel
161. Hand Shadows
Mary Cornish
162. Snow
David Berman
163. Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
Robert Bly
164. In the Well
Andrew Hudgins
165. The Poetry of Bad Weather
Debora Greger
166. The Green One Over There
Katia Kapovich
167. A Man I Knew
Margaret Levine
168. Nights
Kevin Hart
169. Fault
Ron Koertge *
170. Thanks For Remembering Us
Dana Gioia
171. Painting a Room
Katia Kapovich
172. Otherwise
Jane Kenyon
173. A Primer of the Daily Round
Howard Nemerov
174. Love Poem With Toast
Miller Williams
175. Selecting a Reader
Ted Kooser
176. Song
Eamon Grennan
177. Biscuit
Jane Kenyon
178. Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen
179. White-Eyes
Mary Oliver
180. To Help the Monkey Cross the River,
Thomas Lux
181. Lesson
Forrest Hamer
182. Football
Louis Jenkins
183. Sister Cat
Frances Mayes
184. The Bagel
David Ignatow
185. What I Would Do
Marc Petersen
186. For My Daughter
David Ignatow
187. I’ve Been Known
Denise Duhamel
188. The Moon
Robert Bly
189. Watching the Mayan Women
Luisa Villani
190. Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted
Shoshauna Shy
191. The Space Heater
Sharon Olds
192. Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?
Robert Hershon
193. Smoking
Elton Glaser
194. Gratitude to Old Teachers
Robert Bly
195. Love Song
Carol Muske-Dukes
196. Near the Wall of a House
Yehuda Amichai
197. To a Daughter Leaving Home
Linda Pastan
198. June 11
David Lehman
199. A Birthday Candle
Donald Justice
200. Doing Without
David Ray
201. My Life (after Henri Michaux)
Joe Wenderoth
202. Reckless Poem
Mary Oliver
203, After Years
Ted Kooser
204. Small Comfort
Katha Pollitt
205. Turtle
Kay Ryan
206. Knowledge
Philip Memmer
207. Rotary
Christina Pugh
208. Sure
Arlene Tribbia
209. The Exchange
Ron Rash
210. Dutch
Kay Ryan
211. A New Poet
Linda Pastan
212. Relearning Winter
Mark Svenvold
213. My Father's Hats
Mark Irwin
214. Loud Music
Stephen Dobyns
215. Some Clouds
Steve Kowit
216. A Wreath to the Fish
Nancy Willard
217. A Birthday Poem
Ted Kooser
218. The Grammar Lesson
Steve Kowit
219. Halloween
Mac Hammond
220. Fast Break (In Memory of Dennis Turner)
Edward Hirsch
221. On a Cape May Warbler Who
Eamon Grennan
222. The Kitchen Shears Speak
Christianne Balk
223. Slow Children at Play
Cecilia Woloch
224. Lift Your Right Arm
Peter Cherches
225. The Death of Santa Claus
Charles Webb
226. Cat Scat
Eamon Grennan
227. Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space
Ron Padgett
228. Notice
Steve Kowit
229. Thanksgiving
Mac Hammond
230. The Hand
Mary Ruefle
231. Morning
Mary Oliver
232. Animals
Miller Williams
233. God Says Yes To Me
Kaylin Haught
234. Hate Poem
Julie Sheehan
235. The Student Theme
Ronald Wallace
236. The Birthday
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
237. Leaving the Island
Linda Pastan
238. The Summer Day
Mary Oliver
239. Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and
Mary Oliver
240. Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
Martín Espada
241. This Moment
Eavan Boland
242. The Dead
Susan Mitchell
243. The End and the Beginning
Wislawa Szymborska
244. Locals
James Lasdun
245. Social Security
Terence Winch
246. The Yawn
Paul Blackburn
247. Tuesday 9:00 AM
Denver Butson
248. Before the World Intruded
Michele Rosenthal
249. Her Head
Joan Murray
250. 96 Vandam
Gerald Stern
251. Once upon a Time There Was a Man
Mac Hammond
252. Forgiving Buckner
John Hodgen
253. Dandelion
Julie Lechevsky
254. Heat
Michael Chitwood
255. Loyal
William Matthews
256. Forgotten Planet
Doug Dorph
257. Mentor (for Robert Francis)
Timothy Murphy
258. The Rider
Naomi Shihab Nye
259. The Last Wolf
Mary TallMountain
260. Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain
Richard Brautigan
261. Schoolboys with Dog, Winter
William Matthews
262. Summer in a Small Town
Linda Gregg
263. Entrance
Dana Gioia
264. How to Listen
Major Jackson
265. Immortality
Lisel Mueller
266. Our Other Sister (for Ellen)
Jeffrey Harrison
267. How to Change a Frog Into a Prince
Anna Denise
268. End of April
Phillis Levin
269. Bike Ride with Older Boys
Laura Kasischke
270. Break
Dorianne Laux
271. Antigonish (I met a man who wasn't there)
Hughes Mearns
272. At the Zoo
William Makepeace Thackeray
273. Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
Jack Prelutsky
274. Bleezer's Ice Cream
Jack Prelutsky
275. Clouds
Christina Rossetti
276.Dream Variations
Langston Hughes
277. Eletelephony
Laura Elizabeth Richards
278. Fishmonger
Marsden Hartley
279. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
Emily Dickinson
280. maggie and milly and molly and may
E. E. Cummings
281. Mary's Lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale
282. Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
Judith Viorst
283. My Shadow
Robert Louis Stevenson
284. The Nonsense Alphabet
Edward Lear
285. Sick
Shel Silverstein
286. Since Hannah Moved Away
Judith Viorst
287. The Crocodile
Lewis Carroll
288. The Duel
Eugene Field
289. The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson
290. The Purple Cow
Gelett Burgess
291. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
Eugene Field
292. Anti-Heroine
Judith Viorst
293. Thank You
Judith Viorst
294. The Pleasures of an Ordinary Life
Judith Viorst
295. Some Things Just Don't Make Sense
Judith Viorst
296. Learning
Judith Viorst
297. Mother Doesn't Want a Dog
Judith Viorst
298. If I Were in Charge of the World
Judith Viorst
299. Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen, Things to Worry About
Judith Viorst
300. Incident
Natasha Trethewey b. 1966 Natasha Trethewey
301. A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstien
302. Advice
Shel Silverstien
303. Captain Hook
Shel Silverstien
304. Colors
Shel Silverstien
305. Complaining Jack
Shel Silverstien
306. Crystal
Shel Silverstien
307. Diving Board
Shel Silverstien
308. Early Bird
Shel Silverstien
309. Falling Up
Shel Silverstien
310. Flag
Shel Silverstien
311. Hammock
Shel Silverstien
312. Homemade Boat
Shel Silverstien
313. How Many How Much
Shel Silverstien
314. How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes
Shel Silverstien
315. Hug O War
Shel Silverstien
316. I Must Remember
Shel Silverstien
317. Ickle Me Tickle Me
Shel Silverstien
318. Invitation
Shel Silverstien
319. It's Dark in Here
Shel Silverstien
320. Jimmy Jett and His TV Set
Shel Silverstien
321. Joey
Shel Silverstien
322. Listen to the Mustn'ts
Shel Silverstien
333. Little Pigs Treat
Shel Silverstien
324. Magic
Shel Silverstien
325. Memorizin' Mo
Shel Silverstien
326. Monsters I Have Met
Shel Silverstien
327. Moon Catchin'
Shel Silverstien
328. Morgan's Curse
Shel Silverstien
329. My Sneaky
Shel Silverstien
330. Needles and Pins
Shel Silverstien
331. No, Thank You
Shel Silverstien
332. Noise Day
Shel Silverstien
333. Nope
Shel Silverstien
334. Ourchestra
Shel Silverstien
335. Picture Puzzle
Shel Silverstien
336. Pluggin' In
Shel Silverstien
337. Prayer of the Selfish Child
Shel Silverstien
338. Put Something In
Shel Silverstien
339. Rock n Roll Band
Shel Silverstien
340. Safe
Shel Silverstien
341. Scale
Shel Silverstien
342. Shaking
Shel Silverstien
343. Signals
Shel Silverstien
344. Snowball
Shel Silverstien
345. Somebody Has
Shel Silverstien
346. Something Missing
Shel Silverstien
347. Stop Thief
Shel Silverstien
348. Sun Hat
Shel Silverstien
349. The Acrobats
Shel Silverstien
350. The Fourth
Shel Silverstien
351. Loser
Shel Silverstien
352. The Sitter
Shel Silverstien
353. Unfair
Shel Silverstien
354. Wastebasket Brother
Shel Silverstien
355. What Did
Shel Silverstien
Theme for English B
Langston Hughs
No Question
Leo Dengal
Incident
Natasha Trethewey
Traveling Through the Dark
William Stafford
Until I Saw the Sea
Lillian Moore

Websites to Find These Poems... And More!

Middle School Poetry 180
Extraordinary Poems for Every Young Adult Day
Poetry 180
A Poem a Day for American High Schools

4. Reading: Reader's Theater Online

5. Reading: Tradebooks that I Used for Class

06. Reading: Short StoriesThat Are Used in Class

The Gift of the Magi
Written by O Henry
The Necklace
Written by Gut De Maupassant
A Horseman in the Sky
Written by Ambrose Bierce
The Open Window
Written by H.H. Munro (Saki)
To Build a Fire
Written by Jack London
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Written by Frank R. Stockton
The Monkey's Paw
Written by W W. Jacobs
The Treasure in the Foret
Written by H. G. Wells
All Summer in a Day
Written by Ray Bradbury
A Sound of Thunder
Written by Ray Bradbury
The Veldt
Written by Ray Bradbury
There Will Be Soft Rains
Written by Ray Bradbury

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Mongoose

Skunk

National Geographic: Skunks
SoftSchool: Skunk
BBC: The Striped Skunk
Canadian Geographic: The Striped Skunk
Yahoo Voices: The Striped Skunk
Be Careful of Sources!
A-Z Animals: The Striped Skunk

Weasel

Opossum

Raccoon

Porcupine

Heros

00. The Man in the Water

01. Wilma Rudolph

02. Diana Golden

03. Jackie Robinson

04. Gladys Aylward

05. Cesar Chavez

06. Mieo Gies

07. Mahatma Gandhi

08. Matthew Henson

09. Marina Silva

10. Anne and Charles Lindbergh

11. The Crew of Flight 847

12. Steve Biko

13. The Little Rock Nine

14. Christopher Reeve

15. Larry Champagne

16. Frank Serpico

17. Nellie Bly

18. Animals to the Rescue

19. Florence Nightingale

20. Mother Teresa

21. Hans and Sophie Scholl

Gaining Anticipatory Insights

Jellyfish