Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionProblem SolvingAlbert's Bigger Than Big IdeaMath focusOrdering three objects by size and naming the smallestKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingCount Off, Squeak Scouts!Math focusOrdinal position in a line of fiveKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Problem SolvingFinding Shapes with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the MuseumMath focusNaming plane and solid shapes on sight, in any size and any positionKindergarten · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingGrandma's Tiny HouseMath focusCounting a group of objects one by one and saying how manyKindergarten · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Measurement · Number SenseLet's Make a Bar GraphMath focusNaming and building the four parts of a bar graphKindergarten · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Problem SolvingMighty MaddieMath focusComparing two objects by weight by holding one in each handKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingMouse Math, a Mousey MessMath focusSorting a mixed set into exactly four given categories by kindKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingMousier the Merrier!Math focusCounting on from a running total as each new group joinsKindergarten · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingOne Duck StuckMath focusCounting a group of objects and saying how manyKindergarten · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingPlus 1, Minus 1Math focusCounting a group of up to six from one to say how manyKindergarten · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Geometry · Problem SolvingSort it Out!Math focusSorting a set into a pile that obeys one stated attribute ruleKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingTeaspoons, Tablespoons, and CupsMath focusCounting on to sixteen while iterating a unitKindergarten · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number SenseTeddy Bear, Teddy Bear, School Day MathMath focusCounting by twos to eight with paired countersKindergarten · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingWhere's That BoneMath focusDescribing where an object is with a position word and a named landmarkKindergarten · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number SenseComparing two things without counting anythingKindergarten · Sequenced unitBuilt from 3 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseCounting a group, and saying how manyKindergarten · Sequenced unitBuilt from 4 source books8 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planSorting by a rule you can say out loudKindergarten · Sequenced unitBuilt from 3 source books6 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterAction and FeelingWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten10 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularyVocabulary in ContextWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten10 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastCompare DetailsWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten10 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · DiscussionEvidence DiscussionWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten10 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceEvidence ResponseWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten10 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · ThemeCentral MessageWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten12 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of ViewAnalyze Point of ViewDuck! Rabbit!K–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze How Illustrations Support an ArgumentDuck! Rabbit!K–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey Details: What Each One Points AtDuck! Rabbit!K–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanGoodnight, Goodnight, Construction SiteK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence Which Truck Goes FirstGoodnight, Goodnight, Construction SiteK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAuthor's CraftAnalyze Repetition and RhymeGoodnight, Goodnight, Construction SiteK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey Details How a Truck Goes to BedGoodnight, Goodnight, Construction SiteK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanLittle PeaK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence The Week and the Count to FiveLittle PeaK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze What Illustrations AddLittle PeaK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonClassify Questions by PurposeMeet the MeerkatK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMatch Questions with AnswersMeet the MeerkatK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonCompare Two Accounts of the Same FactMeet the MeerkatK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterWhole-Book PlanRed is BestK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey Details The Four Parts of Every PageRed is BestK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterCharacter Response Two Kinds of ReasonRed is BestK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze How Colour Adds MeaningRed is BestK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey DetailsWhen We Are KindK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15 minutesOpen →
4Unit planMinnesota Standards Connection0.1.5.3Reading Pictures for MeaningK–5 Reading · KindergartenBuilt from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
4Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Author's CraftRecognizing and Predicting Patterns KindergartenK–5 Reading Units · KindergartenBuilt from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanDuck! Rabbit!K–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanMud PuddleK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceAnalyze SequenceMud PuddleK–5 Reading · Kindergarten16-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanThe Three Silly BilliesK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze a Repeated and Growing ListMud PuddleK–5 Reading · Kindergarten17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze a Repeated Event SequenceMud PuddleK–5 Reading · Kindergarten17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze Character and SettingThe Three Silly BilliesK–5 Reading · Kindergarten17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze a Repeated SequenceThe Three Silly BilliesK–5 Reading · Kindergarten17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanMeet the MeerkatK–5 Reading · Kindergarten15–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceMake InferencesThe Three Silly BilliesK–5 Reading · Kindergarten20-minute short versionOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Patterns & AlgebraGrandma's Tiny House KindergartenK–5 Math · Kindergarten3 lessons · 20 minutes eachOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number SenseK Comparing two things without counting anythingK–5 Math Units · KindergartenBuilt from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · MoneyA Dollar, a Penny, How Much and How ManyMath focusComposing one hundred cents from quarters, dimes and penniesGrade 1 · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreA Thousand TheosMath focusDoubling a quantity to twenty by making a second equal groupGrade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the CircusMath focusAdding within twenty by counting on from the larger numberGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert Adds Up!Math focusCounting on one or two to add within 11Grade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert Doubles the FunMath focusDoubles facts within 20Grade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreAlbert Helps OutMath focusNaming the cent value of a penny, nickel, dime and quarterGrade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert Starts SchoolMath focusOrdering the seven days of the week and stepping forward and back along themGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPatterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingAll About ProbabilityMath focusDeciding which outcome is more likely from which group is biggerGrade 1 · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Geometry · +1 moreBeach for AlbertMath focusComparing how much two containers hold by pouringGrade 1 · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPatterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingBravo, Albert!Math focusComparing two repeating patterns built from the same two objectsGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number SenseCountasaurusMath focusCounting a named set of objects to ten, one number word per objectGrade 1 · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingDeductive DetectiveMath focusSubtracting one from a number within twelve by counting backGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreDomino AdditionMath focusAdding the two spot counts on a domino to a total within twelveGrade 1 · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +1 moreEqual ShmequalMath focusMaking two groups with the same numberGrade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Problem SolvingGive Me Half!Math focusPartitioning one whole into two equal sharesGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +3 moreHalf or WholeMath focusPartitioning one whole into two equal partsGrade 1 · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingHenry Keeps ScoreMath focusComparing two groups within five and telling how many more and how many fewerGrade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingHide And SeekMath focusComparing how many number words two counting units take to the same numberGrade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Geometry · +1 moreKitten CastleMath focusDeciding whether an object fits a container by direct comparisonGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionProblem SolvingLet's Fly a KiteMath focusPartitioning a whole into two matching parts by foldingGrade 1 · Full book lessons5 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingLet's Go, Snow!Math focusReading a thermometer and deciding whether the reading is above or below 32Grade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreLet's Make a Tally ChartMath focusRecording data with tally marks, one mark per responseGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Patterns & AlgebraMathis Does Not Like MathMath focusCounting a set of objects exactly once, to 17Grade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreMeasure It!Math focusMeasuring a length by iterating one unit and counting the iterationsGrade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingOne is a DrummerMath focusCounting a named set of objects to ten, one number word per objectGrade 1 · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Patterns & AlgebraPounds, Feet, and InchesMath focusSorting objects as lighter or heavier than a one-pound benchmarkGrade 1 · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingRoyal Treasure MeasureMath focusMeasuring a length by laying one unit end to end and counting the unitsGrade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · GeometrySeconds, Minutes, and HoursMath focusOrdering second, minute, hour and day from shortest to longestGrade 1 · Full book lessons3 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Measurement · Number Sense · +1 moreSir Cumference and the Off-the-Charts DessertMath focusBuilding a count picture with one mark for one voteGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreSorting Through Spring (Math in Nature)Math focusSorting a collection by one attribute, then re-sorting the same collection by a different oneGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Problem SolvingTally Cat Keeps TrackMath focusRecording a count as tally marks in groups of five, to 18Grade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number SenseThe Action of SubtractionMath focusTaking away from a group and counting what is leftGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingThe Penguin LadyMath focusCounting on from a running total as each new group arrivesGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseThe Right Place for AlbertMath focusMatching one to one and finding what is left overGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Yum-Yum HouseMath focusFinding a missing addend by counting on to a fixed targetGrade 1 · Full book lessons8 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseUnderwater Counting Even NumbersMath focusDeciding whether a whole number is even or odd from its ending digitGrade 1 · Full book lessons4 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Geometry · +1 moreWindows, Rings, and GrapesMath focusBuilding two-dimensional shapes from a stated number of sides and cornersGrade 1 · Full book lessons7 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingX Marks the Spot!Math focusCounting steps along two directions and joining the two counts into a totalGrade 1 · Full book lessons6 math lessons · choose oneOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & SubtractionDoubling: making a second group that matchesGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 3 source books6 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planKeeping a record you can trustGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 3 source books6 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number SenseMeasuring with a unit you lay end to endGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 3 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Fractions & Decimals · Number Sense · +1 moreOne whole, two equal partsGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 4 source books8 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number SenseTaking away, and what is leftGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 4 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseTwo groups side by side: how many more, how many fewerGrade 1 · Sequenced unitBuilt from 4 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · VocabularyAbba Meshugah Bezrat Hashem a Book That Carries Two LanguagesA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 18-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · VocabularyMonotremes Gondwana Incubating Words the Book Explains ItselfA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · DiscussionTalk Circle Does Hanaleah Need to KnowA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · DiscussionTalk Circle Half Lizard Half Beaver or All PlatypusA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 18-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain IdeaA Dollar a Penny All These Combinations the Sentence That Ties a Page TogetherK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonA Dollar a Penny It Doesn t Grow on TreesK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastA Dollar a Penny Metal and Round Paper and RectangularK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularyA Dollar a Penny Money Is the Term forK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonA Dollar a Penny Ton and Through Listening for the Words That RhymeK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceReading the Book's Question and ShrugA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus Help Sebastian Look UpK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularyAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus Is CalledK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text FeaturesAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus Lots of Big CatsK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus Zip Zoom Uh OhK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastAdding with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Circus Zooms Skates EntersK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · CharacterAlbert Adds Up Albert's Paw Says It First Feelings You Can SeeK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastAlbert Adds Up First and After All What Albert Wanted TwiceK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceAlbert Adds Up First Next Then Last Retelling Albert's TripsK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularyAlbert Adds Up What Is It Getting a Meaning Out of the PageK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & Contrast · Text EvidenceMathis Does Not Like Math Easy for Him Hard for Him Comparing with butK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceMathis Does Not Like Math First Next Last Retelling Mathis's DayK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceStrangest Mammal on Earth Presenting Your Best Platypus FactA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterThis Is My Abba Presenting a Picture the Way Pnina DoesA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonYou Won t Believe Me Reading Pnina Out LoudA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 19-minute short versionOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number SenseCompare Equal Groups and BalanceK–5 Math · Grade 17 lessons · 20-minute full lesson each · 9-minute short version eachOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · VocabularyBecause Vocabulary in ContextBecause of an AcornK–5 Reading · Grade 110-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain IdeaInterdependence Central IdeaBecause of an AcornK–5 Reading · Grade 110-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastLike Stardust Describing Something They ve Never SeenA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 110-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence and StructureBecause of an AcornK–5 Reading · Grade 110-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceThe Number Hunt: What the Book Counted and WhyA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 110-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonInfer a Print-Feature RuleABC Letters in the LibraryK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionReading FoundationsBuild Foundational Reading SkillsABC Letters in the LibraryK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAuthor's CraftAnalyze Author's CraftABC Letters in the LibraryK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonInfer Character MotivationAnd You Can Come TooK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonInterpret a Phrase Used in Two WaysAnd You Can Come TooK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanBoomer Goes to SchoolK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonSequence Places and EventsBoomer Goes to SchoolK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonAnalyze Repetition Across EventsBoomer's Big SurpriseK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonTrace an Important Object Through a StoryBoomer's Big SurpriseK–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →2Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Point of View · Compare & Contrast · +2 moreELA Unit What Boomer KnowsK–5 Reading · Grade 1Built from 2 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
Reading lessonAnalyze Speaker and Print EmphasisI Have to Go!K–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonCompare Repeated ResponsesI Have to Go!K–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze How a Repeated Question ChangesI Have to Go!K–5 Reading · Grade 115-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonPigs Smarter Than You ThinkK–5 Reading · Grade 130-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Compare & Contrast · Sequence · +1 moreAnalyze SequenceThe DotK–5 Reading · Grade 130-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
5Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · SequenceUnderstanding Characters Through Their ActionsK–5 Reading Units · Grade 1Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonInfer a Speaker's Intended MeaningAnd You Can Come TooK–5 Reading · Grade 116-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMake and Check a PredictionBoomer's Big SurpriseK–5 Reading · Grade 116-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanCoriander the Contrary HenK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanDon't Forget to Come BackK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonShort versionWhole-Book PlanIshK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonFull + short versionsWhole-Book PlanIshK–5 Reading · Grade 1Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanStephanie's PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanThe DotK–5 Reading · Grade 1Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonStephanies Ponytail Because of the PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonStephanie's Ponytail: Because of the PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & ContrastStephanies Ponytail What Stephanie Says BackK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & ContrastStephanie's Ponytail: What Stephanie Says BackK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · DiscussionFull + short versionsAnalyze CharactersThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonShort versionAnalyze CharactersThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 117-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterSkill Character ResponseThe DotK–5 Reading · Grade 133-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSkill Dependent SequenceThe DotK–5 Reading · Grade 132-minute full lesson · 17-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze Cause and EffectStephanie's PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 117-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastCompare and ContrastStephanie's PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 117-minute short versionOpen →6Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Character · +3 moreUnderstanding Cause and EffectK–5 Reading Units · Grade 1Built from 6 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · Discussion · ComprehensionAce Lacewing Bug Detective the Questions Ace AsksK–5 Reading · Grade 118 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceShort versionMake InferencesCoriander the Contrary HenK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Vocabulary · Compare & Contrast · +1 moreFull + short versionsMake InferencesCoriander the Contrary HenK–5 Reading · Grade 134-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze a Repeated Cause-and-Effect PatternCoriander the Contrary HenK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze Intended and Actual EffectsDon't Forget to Come BackK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze How a Character ChangesDon't Forget to Come BackK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidencePigs Opened It Just a LittleK–5 Reading · Grade 134-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidencePigs Opened It Just a LittleK–5 Reading · Grade 134-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonHow Far GoesIshK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularySkill Word Meaning and FormationIshK–5 Reading · Grade 134-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze a Chain of Cause and EffectThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 118-minute short versionOpen →
4Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Main Idea · Text Evidence · +3 moreFinding the Lesson or MessageK–5 Reading Units · Grade 1Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceAnalyze SequenceDon't Forget to Come BackK–5 Reading · Grade 119-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionDiscussionDont Forget to Come Back Three Things Four TimesK–5 Reading · Grade 134-minute full lesson · 19-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionReading FoundationsWhole-Book PlanABC Letters in the LibraryK–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text EvidenceAce Lacewing Bug Detective Follow the HoneyK–5 Reading · Grade 120 minutesOpen →Reading lessonCompare Character Knowledge with Reader KnowledgeBoomer Goes to SchoolK–5 Reading · Grade 120-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonAnalyze What Changes a Character's ActionsBoomer Goes to SchoolK–5 Reading · Grade 120-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Compare & Contrast · Text FeaturesFull + short versionsUse Text EvidenceThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 135-minute full lesson · 20-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceShort versionUse Text EvidenceThe Paper Bag PrincessK–5 Reading · Grade 120-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanI Have to Go!K–5 Reading · Grade 115–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonShort versionDetermine Theme with Text EvidenceIshK–5 Reading · Grade 120-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text Evidence · Text Features · +2 moreFull + short versionsDetermine Theme with Text EvidenceIshK–5 Reading · Grade 135-minute full lesson · 20-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionThemeSkill Cause and Central MessageIshK–5 Reading · Grade 135-minute full lesson · 20-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme · Author's CraftSkill Central Message Through StructureThe DotK–5 Reading · Grade 135-minute full lesson · 20-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonInfer Theme from the EndingStephanie's PonytailK–5 Reading · Grade 120-minute short versionOpen →Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreAdd and SubtractK–5 Math · Grade 120 minutesOpen →
4Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Fractions & Decimals · Number Sense · +2 moreOne Whole Two Equal PartsK–5 Math · Grade 1Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreDoubling: making a second group that matchesK–5 Math Units · Grade 1Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanAnd You Can Come TooK–5 Reading · Grade 121–30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterWhole-Book PlanBoomer's Big SurpriseK–5 Reading · Grade 121–30 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · CharacterA Thousand Theos a Shaky Voice How the Book Shows SadnessK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceA Thousand Theos First Then at the EndK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonA Thousand Theos I ll Make Another One the Words People Use to HelpK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonA Thousand Theos Lost Dog What a Sign Has to SayK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonBad for Them Good for Me What Changes in the Last Repeated SentenceK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Compare & ContrastThe Book Says; the Second Text SaysA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Character · Compare & ContrastThe Singing Voice and the Counting VoiceA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Compare & ContrastWhat Could It BeA Platypus, ProbablyK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhy Pnina Keeps BelievingA Snowman in JerusalemK–5 Reading · Grade 130 minutesOpen →Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreModel Growing Number PatternsK–5 Math · Grade 18 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Measurement · Number SenseKeeping a Record You Can TrustK–5 Math · Grade 1Built from 3 source books5 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Standards Connection1.2.3.2Measuring with a Unit You Lay End to EndK–5 Math · Grade 1Built from 3 source books6 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →
4Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreTwo Groups Side by SideK–5 Math · Grade 1Built from 4 source books4 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number SenseCount Equal Groups and Skip-CountK–5 Math · Grade 220-minute full lesson · 9-minute short versionOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Geometry · Problem SolvingClassify Shapes by Two AttributesK–5 Math · Grade 26 lessons · 20-minute full lesson each · 9-minute short version eachOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreSubtract Two-Digit NumbersK–5 Math · Grade 25 lessons · 20-minute full lesson each · 9-minute short version eachOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey DetailsCrazy for CaliforniaK–5 Reading · Grade 210-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence and StructureCrazy for CaliforniaK–5 Reading · Grade 210-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonSpeaker DevelopmentCrazy for CaliforniaK–5 Reading · Grade 210-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Vocabulary · Compare & ContrastVocabulary in ContextCrazy for CaliforniaK–5 Reading · Grade 210-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · ThemeCentral Idea and ThemeCrazy for CaliforniaK–5 Reading · Grade 210-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceMake InferencesAnimals Black and WhiteK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonInterpret Quotation Marks and ItalicsAnimals Black and WhiteK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonDetermine Meaning of Animal-Family WordsAnimals in CamouflageK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →
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Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Point of View · Compare & ContrastDad’s Real PlanEnemy PieK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceEvidence Hidden in an InterviewK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
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Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · CharacterSayings in ContextK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · CharacterBen the Inventor — The Sayings Ben and Jack ShareK–5 Reading · GRADES 2-330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonInterpret Intended Meaning in QuestionsSong of Middle CK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonIdentify and Compare Key DetailsSong of Middle CK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastCompare and ContrastSong of Middle CK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonState Problem PreciselyK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastStory Versus Factual Back MatterK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonTest and Disprove ExplanationK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhere's Burgess Test and Disprove the ExplanationK–5 Reading · GRADES 2-330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonCompare Repeated Actions and DestinationsThe Fire StationK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceThree Clues What They SupportK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceLark and the Dessert Disaster — The Three CluesK–5 Reading · GRADES 2-330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonTrace Facts to SourcesK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection2.1.4.4Standards editionTracing Cause and EffectBecause of an AcornK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCause & EffectGeneral editionTracing Cause and EffectBecause of an AcornK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonTrack Attempts and FailuresK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionFact vs. FictionTrue Information Inside FictionK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Point of ViewWhat He WantsEnemy PieK–5 Reading · Grade 230-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonInterpret Figurative and Literal MeaningWhen Pigs FlyK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterWorking It Out BackwardsWhen Pigs FlyK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonEverybody Tells Him NoWhen Pigs FlyK–5 Reading · Grade 215-minute short versionOpen →
2Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Point of View · Compare & ContrastComparing Points of ViewK–5 Reading Units · Grade 2Built from 2 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonIdentify and Organize Supporting DetailsAnimals Black and WhiteK–5 Reading · Grade 216-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceMake InferencesAnimals in CamouflageK–5 Reading · Grade 216-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonClassify Details About Animal CamouflageAnimals in CamouflageK–5 Reading · Grade 216-minute short versionOpen →
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3Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +2 moreEqual Groups and What Is Left OverK–5 Math · Grade 2Built from 3 source books20-minute full lesson · 30-minute optionOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +2 moreThe unit decides the numberK–5 Math Units · Grade 2Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →6Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Character · Sequence · +1 moreUsing the EvidenceK–5 Reading Units · Grade 2Built from 6 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
5Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCause & Effect · Character · Compare & Contrast · +2 moreWhat They Say What They DoK–5 Reading Units · Grade 2Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →4Unit planWriting Clear InstructionsK–5 Reading Units · Grade 2Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanAnimals Black and WhiteK–5 Reading · Grade 221–30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanAnimals in CamouflageK–5 Reading · Grade 221–30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanThe Fire StationK–5 Reading · Grade 221–30 minutesOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Measurement · Number Sense · +2 moreMaking a Graph Somebody Else Can ReadK–5 Math · Grade 2Built from 3 source books30 minutesOpen →
3Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · Figurative LanguageLiteral, Nonliteral, and Multiple MeaningsK–5 Reading · Grade 3Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Geometry · +1 moreMeasure and Model Square PyramidsK–5 Math · Grade 38 lessons · 20-minute full lesson each · 9-minute short version eachOpen →Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +3 moreCompare and Model FractionsK–5 Math · Grade 37 lessons · 20-minute full lesson each · 9-minute short version eachOpen →
Reading lessonShort version · General editionInterpret Words with Multiple MeaningsArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonFull + short versions · Standards editionInterpret Words with Multiple MeaningsArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceShort version · General editionMake InferencesArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceFull + short versions · Standards editionMake InferencesArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonCompare a Narrator's Opening and EndingArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonSequence Steps in a Character's PlanBoy SoupK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonThe Giant s Own LetterBoy SoupK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceClever Beatrice What She Says What He InfersK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceClever Beatrice — When the Evidence Leaves It OpenK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceTwo Supported InterpretationsK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of ViewFull + short versions · General editionAnalyze a Spider's Point of ViewDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonShort version · General editionAnalyze a Spider's Point of ViewDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 318-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastFull + short versions · Standards editionAnalyze a Spider's Point of ViewDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 334-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonFaces of the Moon Four Kinds of PageK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonPage Types and JobsK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain IdeaFaces of the Moon Topic or Main IdeaK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain IdeaTopic Vs Main IdeaK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · SequenceFaces of the Moon Use Organization to Rebuild SequenceK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · SequenceOrganization Reconstruct SequenceK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionThemeA Theme the Book ShowsJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionThemeTheme Shown Not StatedK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of ViewWhose Story Is ThisJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · Text EvidenceMain Idea Supporting DetailsK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · Text EvidenceThe House That George Built — What the Book Is Mainly AboutK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonParallel Story LinesK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonInterpret Literal and Intended MeaningPecorino's First ConcertK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonInfer a Speaker's IdentityPecorino's First ConcertK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonCompare a Repeated Question's SpeakersPecorino's First ConcertK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequence · Text Evidence · Text Features · +1 moreRepeated Plot PatternK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonWhat Stays, What ChangesRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Author's CraftState Structure as RuleK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · Text Features · ThemeThe Evidence for the ThemeRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · Text Features · ThemeTheme Words and IllustrationsK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 15-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonUse Print Features to Read FluentlyWhen Louis Armstrong Taught Me ScatK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonBuild Fluency and Sound AwarenessWhen Louis Armstrong Taught Me ScatK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonCompare a Repeated Song's ContextWhen Louis Armstrong Taught Me ScatK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lesson15-minute versionUse Context to Determine Word MeaningZoe Sophia's ScrapbookK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Vocabulary20-minute versionUse Context to Determine Word MeaningZoe Sophia's ScrapbookK–5 Reading · Grade 320 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText FeaturesThe Heading Tells You WhenZoe Sophia's ScrapbookK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonEvaluate a Character's Plan and OutcomeZoe Sophia's ScrapbookK–5 Reading · Grade 315-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonShort versionWhole-Book PlanRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonFull + short versionsWhole-Book PlanRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSleepover Squad 1 Sequence the Night of the PartyK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 16-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionThemeSleepover Squad 1 Theme Being Treated the Way You BehaveK–5 Reading · Grade 330-minute full lesson · 16-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterSleepover Squad 1 Character Four Friends Four PlansK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonTwo Ways to ReadBoy SoupK–5 Reading · Grade 318-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonShort version · General editionDetermine ThemeJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 318-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionThemeFull + short versions · Standards editionDetermine ThemeJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 334-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceShort versionThe Evidence for the WishRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 318-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · Text Features · ThemeFull + short versionsThe Evidence for the WishRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 334-minute full lesson · 18-minute short versionOpen →4Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Main Idea · +4 moreUnderstanding Text StructureK–5 Reading · Grade 3Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →5Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCause & Effect · Compare & Contrast · Main Idea · +3 moreWhat It Is Mainly AboutK–5 Reading · Grade 3Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →5Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · Text Evidence · Text Features · +1 moreFinding the Main Idea and ThemeK–5 Reading Units · Grade 3Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
3Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Point of View · Compare & ContrastUnderstanding Point of ViewK–5 Reading Units · Grade 3Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →4Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & Contrast · Sequence · Author's CraftUnderstanding Text StructureK–5 Reading Units · Grade 3Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanArt's SuppliesK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastShort version · General editionCompare and ContrastDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 320-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastFull + short versions · Standards editionCompare and ContrastDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection3.2.2.2His Point of View and MineDiary of a SpiderK–5 Reading · Grade 32 lessons · 20 minutes eachOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of ViewShort version · General editionWho Is Telling ThisJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 320-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of ViewFull + short versions · Standards editionWho Is Telling ThisJust like Josh GibsonK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanPecorino's First ConcertK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabulary · Figurative LanguageLiteral or Nonliteral?Pizza CountingK–5 Reading · Grade 320 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text EvidenceShort versionUse Text EvidenceRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 320-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text EvidenceFull + short versionsUse Text EvidenceRuby's WishK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanWhen Louis Armstrong Taught Me ScatK–5 Reading · Grade 315–20 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanZoe Sophia's ScrapbookK–5 Reading · Grade 321–30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanBoy SoupK–5 Reading · Grade 321–30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionVocabularySleepover Squad 1 Vocabulary in Context Words the Friends ExplainK–5 Reading · Grade 330 minutesOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Fractions & Decimals · +4 moreEqual Parts of One WholeK–5 Math · Grade 3Built from 3 source books5 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →
4Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +4 moreMultiplication, Division and Equal GroupsK–5 Math · Grade 3Built from 4 source books10 lessons · 30 minutes eachOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +3 moreMultiplication as Equal GroupsK–5 Math Units · Grade 3Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Reading lessonSleepover Squad 1 Whole Book PlanK–5 Reading · Grade 36 lessons · 75-minute full lesson each · 32-minute short version eachOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Figurative LanguageThe Cat and the WhalePizza CountingK–5 Reading · Grade 3Flexible timingOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCause & Effect · Vocabulary · Compare & ContrastLight Words, Dark WordsA Light in the DarknessK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInferenceWhat Willie's Actions RevealA Light in the DarknessK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastComparing Fogg's Two GiftsAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.2Building a Theme Relationships and MoneyAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceHow a Rescue Sequence Builds SuspenseAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3What Fogg's Actions RevealAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.8.1Two Meanings of GainAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonOrdering the Collection EventsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Oliver's Changing PrioritiesBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Vocabulary · Text EvidencePandemonium in ContextBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Comparing the Two BedroomsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.2Building a Theme About FamilyAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.2Building a Theme About Humane CareBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastComparing North and South AccountsCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonOne Person as a Window on a PeriodCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.5.2Reading a Recipe as a ProcedureCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.8.1How a Name Carries a ReasonCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.5.2Following a Chain of CausesCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Bradley's DevelopmentClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · VocabularyMonologue in ContextClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Clara's Understanding of Care ChangesClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & ContrastComparing Anne and Gilbert's DecisionsAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastComparing Two Kinds of TreatmentBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Anne Becomes FamilyAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How One Event Changes What Can Happen NextBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Treatment Changes GingerBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhat the Bend in the Road SuggestsAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text EvidenceWhy Willie Shows the MenorahsA Light in the DarknessK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →
4Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreHow Many Times as MuchK–5 Math · Grade 4Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +3 moreOne amount, many names: fractions, decimals and percentsK–5 Math Units · Grade 4Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +2 moreWhat a thing really costsK–5 Math Units · Grade 4Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.2.3.4Around It or Across It Perimeter and AreaK–5 Math · Grade 4Built from 3 source books30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey DetailsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence and StructureBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text EvidenceCharacter DevelopmentBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · VocabularyVocabulary in ContextBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · Text Evidence · ThemeCentral Idea and ThemeBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastCompare DetailsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text Evidence · DiscussionEvidence-Based DiscussionBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · WritingEvidence-Based WritingBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & EffectMighty Muskrats Windy LakeMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Text EvidenceKey DetailsMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · SequenceSequence and StructureMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterCharacter DevelopmentMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · ThemeCentral Idea and ThemeMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & Contrast · WritingCompare DetailsMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text Evidence · DiscussionEvidence-Based DiscussionMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & Contrast · Text Evidence · +1 moreEvidence-Based WritingMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonTom Swift Robot OlympicsK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of View · Text EvidenceTwo Readings, One Evidence-Based JudgmentBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 520 minutesOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text EvidenceWhat the Evidence Lets You ClaimBones Never LieK–5 Reading · Grade 520 minutesOpen →Reading lessonFull PlanBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 520-minute short versionOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Candide stop simply repeating Pangloss's philosophy and begin testing it against experience?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceAt what point does Don Quixote stop reading chivalric stories and start living inside their rules?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Goodwood's promise of freedom begin to feel like another form of possession?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceAt what point does the crowd stop treating the cylinder as an object and start treating it as a threat?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Thoreau's machine metaphor change from tolerating imperfection to requiring resistance?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can a proposal contain its own insult?Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow can a sequence of questions function as an accusation?To AmericaJames Weldon Johnson · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow can an opponent's argument reveal the argument against him?Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can Helena understand that love has no judgment and still choose to follow it?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow can invented words still create a precise story?JabberwockyLewis Carroll · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can Nancy be helping Oliver and still be the person delivering him into danger?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow can punishment fail at its stated purpose and still change the person being punished?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricHow can Thoreau claim greater freedom while describing stone walls, iron doors, and a locked cell?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow do the four sisters reveal different ideas about what it means to have enough?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does a skull lead Hamlet from personal memory to a claim about everyone?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Anne turn an embarrassing mistake into evidence that she is improving?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Anthony use the Constitution's own pronouns to attack exclusion from voting?After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential ElectionSusan B. Anthony · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Belle prove Scrooge has changed without listing what he has done?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Bly expose a system by showing how easily it accepts a performance?Ten Days in a Mad-HouseNellie Bly · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Bradstreet’s speaker argue with her own attachment to the destroyed house?Verses upon the Burning of Our HouseAnne Bradstreet · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central Idea · Argument & Rhetoric · +1 moreHow does Browning make the children's suffering function as an argument against the society around them?The Cry of the ChildrenElizabeth Barrett Browning · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Carton's resemblance to Darnay weaken evidence that had just seemed certain?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Chopin make Louise Mallard’s private response overturn the response everyone around her expects?The Story of an HourKate Chopin · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does confidence become the cause of defeat?Casey at the BatErnest Lawrence Thayer · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow does Dickens let Pip understand the truth before Magwitch says it outright?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Dickens make Scrooge seem less like a person and more like a climate?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Dickinson make death unsettling by presenting it as a calm, courteous journey?Because I could not stop for DeathEmily Dickinson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does Dickinson turn the idea of escape into a conflict between instinctive hope and repeated defeat?I never hear the word EscapeEmily Dickinson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Don Quixote keep the helmet interpretation alive while a room full of people calls the object a basin?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Douglass praise individual effort without pretending individuals act outside social conditions?Self-Made MenFrederick Douglass · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Du Bois turn reassurance into a demanding definition of self-respect?Letter to His DaughterW. E. B. Du Bois · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Dunbar hold painful history and cherished memory in the same place?The Old CabinPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does Dunbar-Nelson make a whole neighborhood function like a narrator?In Our NeighborhoodAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaHow does Dunbar-Nelson make vengeance expose the person who seeks it?A Story of VengeanceAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Emma influence Harriet while insisting that she has not influenced her?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Eppie change the direction of Silas's thinking in a way gold never could?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Equiano use a sequence of perceptions to show terror growing from uncertainty into understanding?The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Fanny change Mr. Dashwood's promise without ever directly telling him to break it?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Freud position his method between superstition and conventional medicine?Dream PsychologySigmund Freud (tr. M. D. Eder) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Hamlet's language move from sadness about his father to judgment of the world around him?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Hammon combine praise with instruction when addressing Wheatley?An Address to Miss Phillis WheatleyJupiter Hammon · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does Hank convert an astronomical fact into political authority?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Harlan redefine segregation as a problem of citizenship rather than social preference?Plessy v. FergusonU.S. Supreme Court · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Henry disagree with respected opponents without weakening the force of his own position?Speech to the Second Virginia ConventionPatrick Henry · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Holmes turn the policeman's irrelevant 'drunk' into the most important person in the scene?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Hughes use rivers to turn one speakers voice into a voice spanning Black history?The Negro Speaks of RiversLangston Hughes · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Iago make suspicion feel like Othello's own conclusion?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Irving make the place itself responsible for what people are willing to believe?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Jane turn feeling into an argument for equality?Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Jekyll turn his own secrecy into a theory about human nature?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Jim know Israel Hands intends to kill him before Hands attacks?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Jim realize what 'gentleman of fortune' actually means before anyone says 'pirate'?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Keats make permanence both attractive and limiting in the scenes on the urn?Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn Keats · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does learning to read become an act of independence rather than simply a school skill?Learning to ReadFrances Ellen Watkins Harper · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of View · Context & HistoryHow does Liliuokalani use personal witness to contest an official story of political change?Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's QueenLiliuokalani · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln move from imagining the war as judgment to defining what people should do next?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln say both sides dreaded war while still distinguishing their responsibility for it?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln turn a ceremony for the dead into a task for the living?The Gettysburg AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does London make Buck's comfortable life feel like a kingdom before that life is taken from him?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does London turn the man's declaration that he is safe into evidence of the mistake that may kill him?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryHow does Madison narrow the problem of faction from something to eliminate into something a government must manage?The Federalist Papers: No. 10James Madison · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Mansfield use Rosemary’s generosity to expose the self-image behind it?A Cup of TeaKatherine Mansfield · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaHow does Merrylegs change the meaning of Ginger's 'bad habit' without excusing it?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Michelangelo use exaggerated physical imagery to challenge the glamorous idea of artistic creation?On the Painting of the Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti (tr. John Addington Symonds) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Mole's experience change what the Wild Wood means to him?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Mother Jones turn respect for presidential authority into pressure to act?Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, July 17, 1903Mother Jones · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Theme & Central Idea · +1 moreHow does Ovid make Lycaon's crime feel like evidence against all humankind?MetamorphosesOvid (tr. Brookes More) · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryHow does Paine turn an abstract political idea into something readers are asked to defend physically?Liberty TreeThomas Paine · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Poe make the narrators emotional reaction seem to arise before he can explain it rationally?The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Priam make Achilles see an enemy father's grief as connected to his own father's love?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does Richard turn a public moment of peace into a private justification for villainy?Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Rikki win by controlling what Nagaina wants?Rikki-Tikki-TaviRudyard Kipling · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Shakespeare let the audience see the gap between Titania's language and what is actually in front of her?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Shelley make Ozymandiass attempt to control his legacy produce the opposite effect?OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Silver use the pirates' own rules and superstitions to regain control after they depose him?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & CraftHow does Stanton turn private sympathy into a public obligation?A Plea for the OppressedLucy Stanton · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Stonehenge make Tess's final 'I am ready' feel prepared rather than sudden?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does Tagore make one character’s practical departure become another character’s emotional catastrophe?The PostmasterRabindranath Tagore · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Tamenund make Uncas's death mean more than the loss of one person?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Tamenund's list make expansion look like a pattern rather than a single injustice?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does the cave setup make a mistaken view of reality feel reasonable rather than foolish?RepublicPlato (tr. Benjamin Jowett) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does the chorus make human intelligence seem both admirable and dangerous?AntigoneSophocles (tr. F. Storr) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does the Court’s reasoning change once it asks how the Africans came to be held rather than simply who possessed them?United States v. The AmistadU.S. Supreme Court · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does the Declaration move from universal principles to a case against a particular government?Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricHow does the ending move from Gatsby's green light to a statement about 'we'?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does the fable overturn the lion’s first judgment?Aesop's FablesAesop, translated by George Fyler Townsend · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the final question destabilize the poem’s apparent criticism of the idler?The IdlerAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryHow does the Great Law turn a political system into a physical image people can remember?Constitution of the Iroquois NationsHaudenosaunee / Iroquois Great Law of Peace · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the invention contain a warning before the failure occurs?Icarus and DaedalusJosephine Preston Peabody · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central Idea · Context & HistoryHow does the king turn Gulliver's proud account of England into evidence against it?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the letter-box change Nora's secret from something she manages into something she can no longer control?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the narrator make an impossible event feel absurdly official and ordinary?The NoseNikolai Gogol · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the opening make La Juanita seem both part of the community and set apart from it?La JuanitaAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the opening make negotiation feel like a choice made under coercion?The Cruel Tribute (from Old Greek Stories)James Baldwin · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does the opening question define heroism before the hero appears?RamayanaValmiki (tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the opening turn a small amount of money into the story's first major conflict?The Gift of the MagiO. Henry · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the opening turn dissatisfaction into a conflict between circumstances and self-image?The NecklaceGuy de Maupassant · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the opening turn one man's anger into the cause of a whole army's suffering?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaHow does the poem make the fight feel decided by character before it is decided by strength?BeowulfAnglo-Saxon (tr. Francis B. Gummere) · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the poem make the future feel attractive and frightening at the same time?Past and FutureSarojini Naidu · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the poem move from celebration to historical memory and then to commitment?Lift Every Voice and SingJames Weldon Johnson · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does the poem redefine what makes a nation powerful?The New ColossusEmma Lazarus · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryHow does the Preamble turn a list of governmental purposes into a claim about the source of political authority?Preamble to the U.S. ConstitutionUnited States Constitutional Convention · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the prophecy turn fear into the force that begins the conflict?Heroes Every Child Should Know: PerseusHamilton Wright Mabie (Perseus adapted from Charles Kingsley) · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the repeated mask image explain the difference between public appearance and private suffering?We Wear the MaskPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow does the repeated word “nevermore” change from an answer into a trap for the speaker’s thinking?The RavenEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricHow does the scene turn names from labels into obstacles the characters try to reason around?The Tragedy of Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does the setting make an entrance feel inevitable before the rider appears?The HighwaymanAlfred Noyes · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the snow move Gabriel's realization beyond Michael Furey and beyond Gabriel himself?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the speaker define love by describing what it refuses to do?Sonnet 116William Shakespeare · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the stage metaphor organize a lifetime while also making individual importance seem temporary?As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the story make a voluntary choice feel like a trap?The Monkey's PawW. W. Jacobs · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationHow does Toad turn genuine kindness into evidence of his own importance?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Tom make work desirable without ever arguing that whitewashing is fun?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Truth answer an abstract argument about equality with evidence from lived experience?Speech to the Ohio Women's Conference: Ain't I a Woman?Sojourner Truth · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Twain imitate moral advice in order to undermine it?Advice to Little GirlsMark Twain · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Vera build a believable lie?The Open WindowSaki · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does Viola tell Olivia the truth about herself without revealing the disguise?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Voltaire make Pangloss's reasoning sound orderly and absurd at the same time?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Washington change the meaning of 'cast down your bucket' when he turns from Black listeners to white listeners?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Argument & Rhetoric · +1 moreHow does Wheatley elevate a current political struggle by placing it inside epic and divine imagery?To His Excellency, General WashingtonPhillis Wheatley · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Wheatley use the poem’s closing turn to challenge the racial judgment named earlier in the poem?On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaPhillis Wheatley · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Woolf make Mabel’s dress become a screen onto which she projects an entire social judgment?The New DressVirginia Woolf · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Woolf turn small interruptions into evidence about who is permitted intellectual freedom?A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Wordsworth redefine what it means to "see" nature as he grows older?Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern AbbeyWilliam Wordsworth · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Wright turn witnessing cruelty into an obligation to intervene?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Context & HistoryHow does Zitkala-Sa make Tusee’s courage both inherit and revise the warrior tradition?A Warrior's DaughterZitkala-Sa · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow has living among giants changed Gulliver's sense of what counts as normal?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow much of Montresor's plan does he reveal to Fortunato before Fortunato understands it?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow much of what Pip 'knows' in the opening actually comes from evidence?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricWhat argument does Macbeth make against himself?MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat becomes possible once Time is treated as someone who can be offended?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat breaks the spell of stopping, and why does the poem repeat the reason for leaving?Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningRobert Frost · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes in Edna before she has actually swum very far?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat changes in Mary's voice once she admits that she is lonely?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat changes once Utterson can replace an imagined Hyde with a person he has actually seen?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes the instant Dimmesdale makes his hidden identity public?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when a word becomes more than a signal?The Story of My LifeHelen Keller · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat changes when Catherine stops trying to persuade her father but does not stop intending to marry Morris?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaWhat changes when Franklin calls something he once excused an 'erratum' of his life?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Hancock reports war through the work of caring for bodies rather than battlefield glory?Letters of a Civil War NurseCornelia Hancock · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat changes when Isabel can name her husband's opposition to Ralph as opposition to her freedom of mind?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Mrs. Grose can name the man the governess has described?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Paine says the decision belongs not just to the present but to posterity?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat changes when Raskolnikov's confession becomes one plain sentence with no theory attached?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat does 'admirable old maid' conceal about the costs of Catherine's self-sufficient life?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does 'prisoner for life' reveal about how Chandler interprets family responsibility in this moment?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Achilles reveal about his values when he describes a choice between long life and lasting fame?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Ahab's pasteboard-mask metaphor allow him to claim about the white whale?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Bottom's desire to play every role reveal about what he thinks acting is for?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does calling herself a 'screen' reveal about the role the governess has begun to assign herself?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Chaucer make us notice before he tells us what to think?The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Colin experience in the garden that changes 'I want to get well' into 'I shall get well'?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Context & HistoryWhat does Curly's death teach Buck that no command or explanation could have taught him?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Don Quixote reject when he says he is Alonso Quixano again?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Dorian's wish reveal about what he has learned to value in only a few minutes?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat does Edna object to in Robert's idea that her husband could 'set her free'?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Franklin gain—and risk—by treating virtue as something that can be tracked in a table?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Gatsby's answer to 'You can't repeat the past' reveal about what he thinks desire can control?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Hamlet do when he realizes that suspicion is not the same thing as proof?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhat does Hawkeye reveal by asserting his identity while admitting his own people's wrongdoing?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhat does Hawthorne gain by describing the house as if it were a face?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does Holmes's brain-attic metaphor allow him to justify that Watson finds absurd?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Huck’s final refusal to be ‘sivilized’ reveal about what he still wants at the end of the novel?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Iago reveal about himself by saying that faithful service can be a form of deception?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Ichabod's imagination reveal about what he wants when he thinks about Katrina?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Isabel mean when she says marrying Lord Warburton would be 'giving up' even though she would gain so much?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Ishmael gain by reversing the usual meanings of sanity and insanity?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Jo's imagined future reveal about what she values before she has achieved any of it?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Knightley make Emma see that she did not see when she joked about Miss Bates?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Lucy gain by telling Elinor about her engagement to Edward?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Marianne's definition of a suitable husband make almost impossible before she has met one?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Marley's chain make visible about responsibility?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Montresor's definition of 'successful' revenge reveal before the plot even begins?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaWhat does Nancy risk when she steps between Fagin and Oliver?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Othello's refusal to name what he is about to do allow him to believe about himself?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Pip decide the instant he hears the news—and what evidence is actually missing?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryWhat does Prospero's “’Tis new to thee” add to Miranda's praise of the people she sees?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat does the adults' reaction to one ordinary request reveal about the workhouse system?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does the crash do to Rat's grand declaration about boating?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does the darkened bazaar make the narrator understand about the story he has been telling himself?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does the doll metaphor let Nora say about both her father and her marriage?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does the failed Saturday teach the March sisters that Marmee's warning alone did not?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does the governess actually know after seeing the man on the tower, and what has she already begun to infer?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does the image of thoughts moving in a circle reveal about Silas's relationship with gold?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does the macaroon scene establish about Nora and Torvald before the serious secret is revealed?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of View · Argument & RhetoricWhat does the narrator accidentally prove?The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & Craft · Context & HistoryWhat does the repeated word 'my' reveal about how Kurtz understands people, land, and power?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Thoreau mean by calling resignation a form of desperation rather than acceptance?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Thoreau want to remove from life in order to discover what life actually is?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Uncas abandoning his rifle reveal about what matters most in the pursuit?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Washington learn by traveling before deciding what Tuskegee should teach?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens to Hank's idea of progress when his inventions make fifty-four men 'masters' over thousands of dead?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat happens to Henry's idea of courage once he sees brave-looking men run?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhat happens to human importance when Wells makes us the creatures under the microscope?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens when the language of spectacle is placed directly beside the bodies it describes?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens when the symbol meant to humiliate Hester becomes the most beautiful thing she wears?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat is ironic about Lord Henry's argument that influence destroys individuality?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat is logical about Tom's argument even if the supernatural premise is not?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat is the cost of Ulysses withholding the truth about Scylla from his crew?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat is the difference between the Doctor saying Morris belongs to the wrong 'category' and Morris insisting Catherine marries an individual?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of View · Argument & RhetoricWhat is wrong with the Cat's proof that Alice must be mad?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat kinds of responsibility can Prospero's 'I acknowledge mine' mean?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhat limit does Raskolnikov try to place on his idea that extraordinary people may break the law?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes Buck's love for Thornton different from every earlier human relationship in his life?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat makes Dantès stop treating Faria's treasure as proof of madness?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat makes Holmes's Afghanistan deduction feel impossible before he explains it and ordinary after he does?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat makes Lockwood's encounter frightening even if the reader does not decide whether the ghost is real?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhat makes rope-dancing a satire of political advancement rather than merely a strange custom?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat makes the forged letter convincing to Malvolio even when its clues are weak?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes the knitting more threatening than an ordinary written list?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes Tom's kite-line more important than luck in finding the way out of the cave?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat makes Van Helsing's description of Dracula sound investigative rather than legendary?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat should a reader do when the evidence breaks the theory?The Time MachineH. G. Wells · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat tension exists between the choice as it happened and the story the speaker expects to tell about it later?The Road Not TakenRobert Frost · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhen Colin calls Magic a scientific experiment, which parts of his method can actually be tested?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhen does devotion become an argument against reality?Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhen does Estella's contempt stop belonging to Estella and start belonging to Pip?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & CraftWhen does the portrait stop being a record of beauty and become a moral instrument?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhen does Victor stop sounding like the person responsible?FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhen Montresor says his heart grows sick because of the damp, what does the surrounding evidence allow us to question?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhen should we trust the narrator?The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhere has Catherine learned the language she uses to diminish herself?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhich action is the strongest evidence that Scrooge's transformation is more than a promise?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhich details in the final exchange support the governess's interpretation, and which keep another interpretation possible?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhich details support Brom Bones more strongly than the supernatural explanation?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhich part of Dantès's escape depends on preparation rather than luck?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhich step in Hamlet's reasoning turns the possibility of death from a solution into a problem?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhich understands the cold more accurately—the man or the dog—and what kind of knowledge does each possess?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy are 'wait and hope' a different kind of wisdom from Monte Cristo's earlier need to control outcomes?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhy are Emma's greatest disadvantages invisible to Emma herself?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy are the Academy's projects funny rather than merely unusual?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftWhy can a scrap of paper frighten Billy Bones more than a visible weapon?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy do Madame Merle and Isabel disagree about whether possessions and surroundings express the self?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does 'Where yeh hit?' terrify Henry when the speaker means it kindly?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does a poem that promises to “count” love keep moving beyond measurement?How Do I Love Thee?Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does a scene full of pleasure lead the speaker to lament human behavior?Lines Written in Early SpringWilliam Wordsworth · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Achilles choose to return to battle immediately after Thetis tells him it will bring his own death closer?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does Alice treat changing size as evidence that she may have become a different person?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Anne describe staying in Avonlea as a bend in the road rather than the end of the road?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Anne discover a disadvantage in finally entering the luxurious room she once dreamed about?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaWhy does Ariel's imagined human pity change Prospero more than the prisoners' suffering itself?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does Beauty's mother connect good breeding to behavior rather than pedigree alone?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Betsey reduce her hopes for David to three prohibitions instead of a list of achievements?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Burnett make Mary's discovery feel like both an accident and an invitation?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Candide answer Pangloss's final theory with work instead of another argument?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Catherine describe one love as foliage and the other as rock?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Chopin describe new understanding as something that both shows the way and forbids it?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does David begin by asking whether he will be the hero of his own life?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does David refuse to treat natural ability as enough?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaWhy does destroying the portrait destroy Dorian instead of freeing him?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy does Dickens describe one historical moment as two opposite things at once?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewWhy does Dickens let the seamstress understand Carton's sacrifice before the narration explains it?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Dostoevsky place the story of resurrection in a room with Raskolnikov and Sonia?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Douglass say that argument is no longer the right rhetorical tool at this point in the speech?What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Frederick Douglass · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Enfield stop describing Hyde as a man and compare him to a Juggernaut?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Eppie reject the 'strongest of all claims' that Godfrey thinks biology gives him?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Eveline's body become passive at the exact moment she must act?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Franklin describe his dirty clothes, little money, and awkward appearance in such detail?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Franklin tell the speckled-axe story immediately after describing his failure at perfect Order?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Grahame give Mole and Rat a perfect revelation and then take the memory away?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Hank say the world's consent to authority is finer than authority itself?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Harker describe the vampire women as both desirable and repulsive at the same time?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does Harker end a book made of journals and records by saying they are not proof?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Heathcliff ask Catherine both to torment him and never leave him?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Henry's final confidence require him to remember his shame rather than erase it?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Context & HistoryWhy does Huck describe helping Jim as damnation at the moment the reader sees it as his strongest moral choice?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Huck pity people he knows have repeatedly harmed others?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Language & CraftWhy does Ishmael describe going to sea as an alternative to violence or despair?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does John refuse to accept good intentions as enough?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhy does Knightley connect difficulty speaking with the strength of his feeling?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does knowing the exact temperature fail to mean that the man understands the danger?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Lincoln name slavery as the cause of war and then refuse to claim that God simply favors one side?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Lincoln pair 'high hope' with a refusal to predict victory?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Lockwood's final peaceful scene refuse to settle whether the dead are at rest?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryWhy does Marlow describe the Company's city as something clean on the outside and corrupt within?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does Marlow replace Kurtz's actual last words with the Intended's name?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Montresor keep offering Fortunato ways not to come?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does Nick call Gatsby 'worth the whole damn bunch' after spending the novel criticizing him?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Nora say coming back would require both people to change?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does opening the cent-shop feel like a public fall to Hepzibah rather than simply a new job?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does Orsino ask for more music in order to stop wanting it?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does Paine begin by separating society from government instead of treating them as the same thing?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy does Paine treat habit itself as an obstacle to political reasoning?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Pasteur present criticism as a discipline researchers must direct at their own ideas?Worship the Spirit of CriticismLouis Pasteur · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Prospero move from a vanished entertainment to the claim that the world itself will dissolve?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does Raskolnikov keep revising his explanation of why he killed the pawnbroker?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does seeing the transformation fail to make Lanyon feel certain about what he knows?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does sweeping one room tell the teacher something an ordinary entrance exam would not?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does Tagore make the longest outward journey lead inward?12 (from Gitanjali)Rabindranath Tagore · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Tess believe Angel's confession creates the conditions for forgiveness, and what exposes that belief as mistaken?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Tess call herself a murderess when the people around her do not?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the daguerreotype become evidence against Judge Pyncheon's respectable appearance?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the dog survive the same cold that kills the man?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does the green light lose its 'colossal significance' when Daisy is beside Gatsby?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does the hermit answer the questions with events instead of definitions?The Three QuestionsLeo Tolstoy · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the hidden casket matter before Dantès even opens it?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does the narrator keep comparing Martian machinery to familiar human things?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does the natural world seem to change when Hester removes the letter?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does the poem make being “Somebody” sound less desirable than being “Nobody”?I'm Nobody! Who are you?Emily Dickinson · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does the restraint of the starving crew become more mysterious to Marlow the more he thinks about it?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does the squirrel feel like proof to Henry even though it cannot answer the moral question he is asking?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does the wedding ring resist the meaning Edna tries to force onto it?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the word RACHE produce more information when Holmes refuses the obvious interpretation?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Theseus group the lunatic, the lover, and the poet together?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau defend moving at a different pace rather than simply choosing a different destination?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau move from 'governs not at all' to asking immediately for a better government?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Thoreau say majority rule explains who wins but not who is right?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau surround his command to simplify with images of counting, clutter, storms, and navigation?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Thornton's death change the call of the forest from temptation into something Buck can finally obey?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Tom's testimony count as courage even though he is terrified?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Ulysses design a plan that assumes his future self cannot be trusted?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Viola treat disguise as a way to act rather than merely hide?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Washington argue that restricting Black advancement harms the people doing the restricting?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Wells end the invasion by making the smallest organisms stronger than the strongest machines?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy doesn't Sancho's accurate explanation of the windmills change Don Quixote's belief?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is 'sentence first—verdict afterwards' funny and threatening at the same time?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is Barkis's repeated message funnier and more revealing than a direct proposal?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is Bartleby’s first refusal more disruptive because of the way he phrases it?Bartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy is being 'Anne of Green Gables' already better to Anne than being the imaginary Lady Cordelia?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is certainty more painful to Elinor than an event she had already told herself was certain?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy is Eppie's claim that 'nobody could be happier' a stronger ending than restoring everything Silas lost?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy is Huck's apology important precisely because he has been taught that it should humiliate him?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is Ishmael saved by an object designed for death?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is Nancy's understanding of her situation not enough to make escape possible for her?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy is Othello's claim that he is 'rude' in speech difficult to believe by the end of his defense?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the bed a better test of identity than Ulysses' appearance?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy is the bird’s song not evidence that the cage has been accepted?SympathyPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is the destroyed manuscript more than simply a possession Jo has lost?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy is the island/continent comparison more persuasive than simply saying England is far away?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftWhy is the letter's position under the carpet more important than anything Tess wrote inside it?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhy is the mirror more disturbing to Harker than simply noticing something strange about Dracula?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is the name 'Noman' useful only because Ulysses predicts how language will work later?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →
Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is the poem’s peaceful future more unsettling than reassuring?There Will Come Soft Rains - poemSara Teasdale · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy is the telephone-office sentence funnier because it appears inside a place famous for miracles?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the thrown 'head' more suspicious once Ichabod expects the Horseman to vanish at the bridge?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the ticking watch more frightening than a dramatic description of the Judge's death?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →5Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Character · +5 moreThe Words They UseK–5 Reading · Grades 2-3Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →6Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Character · +5 moreUsing the EvidenceK–5 Reading · Grades 2-3Built from 6 source booksFlexible timingOpen →7Unit planWhat they tried nextK–5 Reading Units · Grades 2-3Built from 7 source booksFlexible timingOpen →4Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Compare & Contrast · +2 moreThe Story Gets BiggerK–5 Reading · GRADES K-3Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionProblem SolvingAlbert is NOT ScaredMath focusMatching each move of one ride to the refusal it answers and naming the one left overGrade K · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert Keeps ScoreMath focusDeciding whether two sets are the same by matching them one to oneGrade K · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert's Amazing SnailMath focusPlacing an object at a named position and saying the position wordGrade K · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Problem SolvingMake a Wish, Albert!Math focusNaming three-dimensional solids in everyday objectsGrade K · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreA Place for ZeroMath focusBundling ten ones into one ten and putting a zero in the emptied ones placeGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert the Muffin-MakerMath focusNaming ordinal position in an ordered list of tenGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingBad Luck BradMath focusSaying why the likelier colour can still fail to come outGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingClock Struck One, TheMath focusReading the hour and the minutes on the two sides of a digital clockGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCounting on Fall (Math in Nature)Math focusMaking ten from two parts, and finding more than one pair that worksGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingCounting with Sebastian Pig and Friends on the FarmMath focusSkip counting to one hundred by twos, fives and tensGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingDealing with AdditionMath focusFinding every different way one hand of cards makes a total of fiveGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreElla Earns Her Own MoneyMath focusRunning a total forward through six printed checkpoints, adding one, two or four dollars at a time and never passing twentyGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Money · Problem SolvingGabriel Gets a Great DealMath focusAdding a ten-dollar shipping charge to a price and testing the total against the most a family may spendGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingGrandma's Button BoxMath focusSorting one set by a single attribute so that every button lands in exactly one groupGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingIf the Shoe FitsMath focusMeasuring a length by laying same-size units end to end and counting themGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseLily Learns about Wants and NeedsMath focusSorting a set of things into two groups by a rule the book statesGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Geometry · Problem SolvingMath Fair BluesMath focusTesting two shapes for same size and same shapeGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingMiss Penny Says Prove It!Math focusHolding a count of sixteen steady while the objects are moved and rearrangedGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingOn My Way to Grandma's HouseMath focusDeciding which of two numbers is closer to a third by counting both ways and comparing the two countsGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingPlay DateMath focusNaming the day that comes after a named dayGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingSizing Up WinterMath focusMeasuring a length by laying one unit end to end and saying the count with its unitGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingSubtracting with Sebastian Pig and Friends on a Camping TripMath focusSubtracting to find how many are missing, within twelveGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreSubtraction ActionMath focusWriting a subtraction equation for a take-away story and naming the answer the differenceGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Patterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingSuper SpecsMath focusPredicting the next number in a pattern and saying which rule you usedGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingToo-Tall TinaMath focusOrdering three people by height and saying each comparison both waysGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Patterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingWhat's Next, NinaMath focusFinding the repeating unit in a repeating patternGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingWhere's HarleyMath focusCrossing an ordered list off to find the one place leftGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingWho's Got SpotsMath focusSorting a named group into three data categories, one member to one categoryGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingA Frog's LifeMath focusPlacing the weeks a book names on a number lineGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAll Aboard!Math focusReading a written clock time as an hour and the minutes past that hourGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCarrie Measures UpMath focusMeasuring a length in whole inches with a tape and recording itGrade 2 · Full book collection10 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCollection for Kate, AMath focusAdding five two-digit and one-digit addends with regroupingGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreCount on PabloMath focusSkip counting by twos and fivesGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingDeena's Lucky PennyMath focusCoin values and equal exchangeGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Problem SolvingEven or OddMath focusEven and odd by grouping in twosGrade 2 · Full book collection7 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Geometry · +2 moreFair is Fair!Math focusBuilding a bar graph with a numbered scale and one square for one unitGrade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingFibonacci ZooMath focusAdding two numbers to make the next in a rowGrade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Geometry · +1 moreFishy MysteryMath focusSorting a set of shapes into a two-circle diagram by two attributesGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreFollow the Money!Math focusCoin values and coin equivalence to one dollarGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingGame Time!Math focusQuarter, half and three quarters of an hour as parts of sixty minutesGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingIt's About Time, Max!Math focusNaming the hour hand and the minute hand on an analog clockGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingIts TimeMath focusTelling time to the hour from the positions of the two handsGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingKeep Your Distance!Math focusBuilding one foot from twelve inches and one yard from three feetGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · MoneyKyle Keeps Track of CashMath focusReading what a coin is worth and counting a handful of coins to one amountGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingLights Out!Math focusSubtracting a one-digit number from a two-digit count by counting backGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +1 moreLulu's LemonadeMath focusComparing the capacity of two containers by pouring one into the otherGrade 2 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreMac & Cheese, Pleeeeze!Math focusAdding a two-digit number by adding its tens, then its onesGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Problem SolvingMeasuring with Sebastian Pig and Friends on a Road TripMath focusMeasuring a height in inches with a yardstick, lining the 1 up with the bottom edgeGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · MoneyMoney CountsMath focusDeciding whether an amount covers a price, and finding the changeGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreMoney MathMath focusFinding change by removing named coins and counting what staysGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreMoney Math with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Farmer's MarketMath focusSubtracting within one hundred to track money remainingGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingOcean Counting Odd NumbersMath focusSkip counting by twos from one within 50Grade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingOn the Scale, a Weighty TaleMath focusChoosing a fitting unit of weight for an objectGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · Number Sense · +2 moreOnce Upon a DimeMath focusCoin worth: penny, nickel, dime, quarterGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingRabbits, Rabbits Everywhere: A Fibonacci TaleMath focusAdding the two numbers before to find the nextGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingRuby Makes It EvenMath focusDeciding whether a group is odd or even by pairing everyone offGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreShanti Saves Her MoneyMath focusCounting four equal prices of twenty dollars to the cost of a family's ticketsGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Problem SolvingShaping Up SummerMath focusTelling a solid shape from the flat shape it looks likeGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +2 moreShark SwimathonMath focusSubtracting a two-digit number from a two-digit number, trading a ten when the ones will not giveGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreSplitting the HerdMath focusSplitting a group into two equal shares by counting offGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreThe 100-Pound ProblemMath focusAdding stated weights and deciding whether a load stays under a limitGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Patterns & Algebra · Money · +1 moreThe Coin Counting BookMath focusCoin equivalence: trading pennies and nickels for one coin of the same valueGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number SenseThe Great Graph ContestMath focusSorting a collection into two groups by an attribute you choose, and labelling themGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionFractions & Decimals · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Grizzly GazetteMath focusReading a percent of the hundred campers as a count of campersGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Long WaitMath focusEstimating a large group from the size of one group, then testing it by countingGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingTightwad TodMath focusTaking whole dollars away from an amount and counting what is left, within twentyGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreWhere's Albert?Math focusSkip counting by tens to 100Grade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingZero, Zilch, NadaMath focusFinding what is left after each of three losses from one hundredGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem Solving2 X 2 = Boo!Math focusMultiplication as equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +2 moreAlice In PastalandMath focusIterating a half-pound unit to a whole number of poundsGrade 3 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Problem SolvingAsk MiaMath focusMaking a scaled pictograph with a key of tenGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Geometry · +1 moreChickens on the MoveMath focusFinding a perimeter by going all the way around a figure and adding every side onceGrade 3 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingDinosaur DealsMath focusEqual value in a stated exchange rateGrade 3 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMoney · Problem SolvingEverybody Wins!Math focusEqual sharing of one amount among a changing number of sharesGrade 3 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +3 moreExploring Pyramids Around the WorldMath focusMeasuring and drawing a square base with four triangular faces, then folding it into a solidGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingJump, Kangaroo, Jump!Math focusNaming the share when a group of twelve is dealt into two, three or four equal teamsGrade 3 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Fractions & Decimals · Number SenseLet's Make a Circle GraphMath focusFinding how many children one piece of a circle graph stands forGrade 3 · Full book collection3 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +2 moreManga Math Mysteries #5: The Ancient FormulaMath focusSubtracting a unit fraction from one whole with like denominatorsGrade 3 · Full book collection15 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingMath on the MoveMath focusAdding a delay in hours and minutes to a timetabled time and deciding whether a walk still fitsGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number SenseMultiply By HandMath focusReading a two-digit product off a finger arrangementGrade 3 · Full book collection10 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreMultiplying Menace: The Revenge of RumpelstiltskinMath focusMultiplication as equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingOtto and the New GirlMath focusTesting a figure for a line of symmetry by foldingGrade 3 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingSeeing SymmetryMath focusTesting a figure for a line of symmetry by folding it in halfGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingSir Cumference and All the King's TensMath focusRegrouping ten ones into a ten and ten tens into a hundredGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingSlowpokeMath focusFinding the amount of minutes between a printed start time and finish timeGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Graphing · Measurement · +3 moreTeddy Bear MathMath focusBuilding a one-to-one bar graph from sorted objects and reading length as countGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingThe Blast-Off KidMath focusGrouping ones into tens and tens into hundreds by handGrade 3 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Problem SolvingThe Book BanditMath focusDeciding whether a four-sided figure is a square by measuring all four sidesGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Great DivideMath focusPartitive division: sharing a total into a stated number of equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Kung Fu PuzzleMath focusFinding the minutes between a stated time and the hour that follows itGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreThe Multiplying Menace Divides: A Math AdventureMath focusDividing twelve into equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingThe Runaway PuppyMath focusOrdering categories by how often they occur and naming the most, least and equally likelyGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreWhat's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math AdventureMath focusBuilding squares from rows of unit tilesGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Patterns & AlgebraBall Game MathMath focusFinding one side of a four-sided figure from its perimeter, then taking three quarters of a lengthGrade 4 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +2 moreBeanstalk: The Measure of a GiantMath focusMultiplicative comparison of two measured heightsGrade 4 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +3 moreCivil War RecipesMath focusAdding fractions with like denominatorsGrade 4 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +2 moreFollow Your MoneyMath focusAdding a column of money amounts and subtracting to find what is leftGrade 4 · Full book collection15 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionFractions & Decimals · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreFractions, Decimals, and PercentsMath focusWriting an amount of cents as a fraction of a dollar, a decimal, and a percentGrade 4 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreKitchen MathMath focusFinding a scale factor from a serving count and dividing ingredient amounts by itGrade 4 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +2 moreMusic MathMath focusAdding halves and whole beats to a stated totalGrade 4 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Geometry · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreMystery MathMath focusFinding an unknown by undoing the operation on both sidesGrade 4 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Problem SolvingOn the Trail with Lewis and ClarkMath focusComparing two stated monthly distances additively and multiplicativelyGrade 4 · Full book collection10 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →
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Curriculum ConnectionSequenceHow a Rescue Sequence Builds SuspenseAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3What Fogg's Actions RevealAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.8.1Two Meanings of GainAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonOrdering the Collection EventsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Oliver's Changing PrioritiesBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Vocabulary · Text EvidencePandemonium in ContextBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Comparing the Two BedroomsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.2Building a Theme About FamilyAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.2Building a Theme About Humane CareBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastComparing North and South AccountsCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonOne Person as a Window on a PeriodCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.5.2Reading a Recipe as a ProcedureCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.8.1How a Name Carries a ReasonCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.5.2Following a Chain of CausesCivil War RecipesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3Bradley's DevelopmentClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · VocabularyMonologue in ContextClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Clara's Understanding of Care ChangesClara Humble and the Kitten CaboodleK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & ContrastComparing Anne and Gilbert's DecisionsAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastComparing Two Kinds of TreatmentBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Anne Becomes FamilyAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How One Event Changes What Can Happen NextBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.1.4.3How Treatment Changes GingerBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhat the Bend in the Road SuggestsAnne of Green GablesK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text EvidenceWhy Willie Shows the MenorahsA Light in the DarknessK–5 Reading · Grade 420 minutesOpen →4Math lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreHow Many Times as MuchK–5 Math · Grade 4Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +3 moreOne amount, many names: fractions, decimals and percentsK–5 Math Units · Grade 4Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Unit planMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · +2 moreWhat a thing really costsK–5 Math Units · Grade 4Built from 3 source booksFlexible timingOpen →
3Math lessonMinnesota Standards Connection4.2.3.4Around It or Across It Perimeter and AreaK–5 Math · Grade 4Built from 3 source books30 minutesOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanAround the World in 80 DaysK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText EvidenceKey DetailsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionSequenceSequence and StructureBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text EvidenceCharacter DevelopmentBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · VocabularyVocabulary in ContextBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · Text Evidence · ThemeCentral Idea and ThemeBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & ContrastCompare DetailsBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Text Evidence · DiscussionEvidence-Based DiscussionBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionText Evidence · WritingEvidence-Based WritingBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonWhole-Book PlanBlack BeautyK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & EffectMighty Muskrats Windy LakeMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Text EvidenceKey DetailsMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · SequenceSequence and StructureMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacterCharacter DevelopmentMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMain Idea · ThemeCentral Idea and ThemeMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCompare & Contrast · WritingCompare DetailsMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text Evidence · DiscussionEvidence-Based DiscussionMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter · Compare & Contrast · Text Evidence · +1 moreEvidence-Based WritingMighty Muskrats: The Case of the Windy LakeK–5 Reading · Grade 510-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonTom Swift Robot OlympicsK–5 Reading · Grade 5Flexible timingOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionPoint of View · Text EvidenceTwo Readings, One Evidence-Based JudgmentBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 520 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Text EvidenceWhat the Evidence Lets You ClaimBones Never LieK–5 Reading · Grade 520 minutesOpen →Reading lessonFull PlanBox of ShocksK–5 Reading · Grade 520-minute short versionOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Candide stop simply repeating Pangloss's philosophy and begin testing it against experience?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceAt what point does Don Quixote stop reading chivalric stories and start living inside their rules?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Goodwood's promise of freedom begin to feel like another form of possession?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceAt what point does the crowd stop treating the cylinder as an object and start treating it as a threat?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftAt what point does Thoreau's machine metaphor change from tolerating imperfection to requiring resistance?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can a proposal contain its own insult?Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow can a sequence of questions function as an accusation?To AmericaJames Weldon Johnson · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow can an opponent's argument reveal the argument against him?Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can Helena understand that love has no judgment and still choose to follow it?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow can invented words still create a precise story?JabberwockyLewis Carroll · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow can Nancy be helping Oliver and still be the person delivering him into danger?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow can punishment fail at its stated purpose and still change the person being punished?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricHow can Thoreau claim greater freedom while describing stone walls, iron doors, and a locked cell?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow do the four sisters reveal different ideas about what it means to have enough?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does a skull lead Hamlet from personal memory to a claim about everyone?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Anne turn an embarrassing mistake into evidence that she is improving?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Anthony use the Constitution's own pronouns to attack exclusion from voting?After Being Convicted of Voting in the 1872 Presidential ElectionSusan B. Anthony · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Belle prove Scrooge has changed without listing what he has done?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Bly expose a system by showing how easily it accepts a performance?Ten Days in a Mad-HouseNellie Bly · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Bradstreet’s speaker argue with her own attachment to the destroyed house?Verses upon the Burning of Our HouseAnne Bradstreet · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central Idea · Argument & Rhetoric · +1 moreHow does Browning make the children's suffering function as an argument against the society around them?The Cry of the ChildrenElizabeth Barrett Browning · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Carton's resemblance to Darnay weaken evidence that had just seemed certain?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Chopin make Louise Mallard’s private response overturn the response everyone around her expects?The Story of an HourKate Chopin · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does confidence become the cause of defeat?Casey at the BatErnest Lawrence Thayer · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow does Dickens let Pip understand the truth before Magwitch says it outright?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Dickens make Scrooge seem less like a person and more like a climate?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Dickinson make death unsettling by presenting it as a calm, courteous journey?Because I could not stop for DeathEmily Dickinson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does Dickinson turn the idea of escape into a conflict between instinctive hope and repeated defeat?I never hear the word EscapeEmily Dickinson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Don Quixote keep the helmet interpretation alive while a room full of people calls the object a basin?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Douglass praise individual effort without pretending individuals act outside social conditions?Self-Made MenFrederick Douglass · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Du Bois turn reassurance into a demanding definition of self-respect?Letter to His DaughterW. E. B. Du Bois · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Dunbar hold painful history and cherished memory in the same place?The Old CabinPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does Dunbar-Nelson make a whole neighborhood function like a narrator?In Our NeighborhoodAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaHow does Dunbar-Nelson make vengeance expose the person who seeks it?A Story of VengeanceAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Emma influence Harriet while insisting that she has not influenced her?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Eppie change the direction of Silas's thinking in a way gold never could?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Equiano use a sequence of perceptions to show terror growing from uncertainty into understanding?The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Fanny change Mr. Dashwood's promise without ever directly telling him to break it?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Freud position his method between superstition and conventional medicine?Dream PsychologySigmund Freud (tr. M. D. Eder) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Hamlet's language move from sadness about his father to judgment of the world around him?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Hammon combine praise with instruction when addressing Wheatley?An Address to Miss Phillis WheatleyJupiter Hammon · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does Hank convert an astronomical fact into political authority?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Harlan redefine segregation as a problem of citizenship rather than social preference?Plessy v. FergusonU.S. Supreme Court · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Henry disagree with respected opponents without weakening the force of his own position?Speech to the Second Virginia ConventionPatrick Henry · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Holmes turn the policeman's irrelevant 'drunk' into the most important person in the scene?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Hughes use rivers to turn one speakers voice into a voice spanning Black history?The Negro Speaks of RiversLangston Hughes · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Iago make suspicion feel like Othello's own conclusion?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Irving make the place itself responsible for what people are willing to believe?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Jane turn feeling into an argument for equality?Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Jekyll turn his own secrecy into a theory about human nature?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Jim know Israel Hands intends to kill him before Hands attacks?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does Jim realize what 'gentleman of fortune' actually means before anyone says 'pirate'?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Keats make permanence both attractive and limiting in the scenes on the urn?Ode on a Grecian UrnJohn Keats · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does learning to read become an act of independence rather than simply a school skill?Learning to ReadFrances Ellen Watkins Harper · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of View · Context & HistoryHow does Liliuokalani use personal witness to contest an official story of political change?Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's QueenLiliuokalani · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln move from imagining the war as judgment to defining what people should do next?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln say both sides dreaded war while still distinguishing their responsibility for it?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Lincoln turn a ceremony for the dead into a task for the living?The Gettysburg AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does London make Buck's comfortable life feel like a kingdom before that life is taken from him?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does London turn the man's declaration that he is safe into evidence of the mistake that may kill him?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryHow does Madison narrow the problem of faction from something to eliminate into something a government must manage?The Federalist Papers: No. 10James Madison · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Mansfield use Rosemary’s generosity to expose the self-image behind it?A Cup of TeaKatherine Mansfield · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaHow does Merrylegs change the meaning of Ginger's 'bad habit' without excusing it?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Michelangelo use exaggerated physical imagery to challenge the glamorous idea of artistic creation?On the Painting of the Sistine ChapelMichelangelo Buonarroti (tr. John Addington Symonds) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Mole's experience change what the Wild Wood means to him?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Mother Jones turn respect for presidential authority into pressure to act?Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, July 17, 1903Mother Jones · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Theme & Central Idea · +1 moreHow does Ovid make Lycaon's crime feel like evidence against all humankind?MetamorphosesOvid (tr. Brookes More) · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryHow does Paine turn an abstract political idea into something readers are asked to defend physically?Liberty TreeThomas Paine · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Poe make the narrators emotional reaction seem to arise before he can explain it rationally?The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Priam make Achilles see an enemy father's grief as connected to his own father's love?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does Richard turn a public moment of peace into a private justification for villainy?Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Rikki win by controlling what Nagaina wants?Rikki-Tikki-TaviRudyard Kipling · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Shakespeare let the audience see the gap between Titania's language and what is actually in front of her?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Shelley make Ozymandiass attempt to control his legacy produce the opposite effect?OzymandiasPercy Bysshe Shelley · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Silver use the pirates' own rules and superstitions to regain control after they depose him?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & CraftHow does Stanton turn private sympathy into a public obligation?A Plea for the OppressedLucy Stanton · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Stonehenge make Tess's final 'I am ready' feel prepared rather than sudden?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does Tagore make one character’s practical departure become another character’s emotional catastrophe?The PostmasterRabindranath Tagore · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does Tamenund make Uncas's death mean more than the loss of one person?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Tamenund's list make expansion look like a pattern rather than a single injustice?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does the cave setup make a mistaken view of reality feel reasonable rather than foolish?RepublicPlato (tr. Benjamin Jowett) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryHow does the chorus make human intelligence seem both admirable and dangerous?AntigoneSophocles (tr. F. Storr) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does the Court’s reasoning change once it asks how the Africans came to be held rather than simply who possessed them?United States v. The AmistadU.S. Supreme Court · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricHow does the Declaration move from universal principles to a case against a particular government?Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricHow does the ending move from Gatsby's green light to a statement about 'we'?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow does the fable overturn the lion’s first judgment?Aesop's FablesAesop, translated by George Fyler Townsend · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the final question destabilize the poem’s apparent criticism of the idler?The IdlerAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryHow does the Great Law turn a political system into a physical image people can remember?Constitution of the Iroquois NationsHaudenosaunee / Iroquois Great Law of Peace · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the invention contain a warning before the failure occurs?Icarus and DaedalusJosephine Preston Peabody · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central Idea · Context & HistoryHow does the king turn Gulliver's proud account of England into evidence against it?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the letter-box change Nora's secret from something she manages into something she can no longer control?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the narrator make an impossible event feel absurdly official and ordinary?The NoseNikolai Gogol · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the opening make La Juanita seem both part of the community and set apart from it?La JuanitaAlice Dunbar-Nelson · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the opening make negotiation feel like a choice made under coercion?The Cruel Tribute (from Old Greek Stories)James Baldwin · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does the opening question define heroism before the hero appears?RamayanaValmiki (tr. Ralph T. H. Griffith) · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the opening turn a small amount of money into the story's first major conflict?The Gift of the MagiO. Henry · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the opening turn dissatisfaction into a conflict between circumstances and self-image?The NecklaceGuy de Maupassant · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the opening turn one man's anger into the cause of a whole army's suffering?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaHow does the poem make the fight feel decided by character before it is decided by strength?BeowulfAnglo-Saxon (tr. Francis B. Gummere) · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the poem make the future feel attractive and frightening at the same time?Past and FutureSarojini Naidu · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow does the poem move from celebration to historical memory and then to commitment?Lift Every Voice and SingJames Weldon Johnson · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does the poem redefine what makes a nation powerful?The New ColossusEmma Lazarus · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryHow does the Preamble turn a list of governmental purposes into a claim about the source of political authority?Preamble to the U.S. ConstitutionUnited States Constitutional Convention · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the prophecy turn fear into the force that begins the conflict?Heroes Every Child Should Know: PerseusHamilton Wright Mabie (Perseus adapted from Charles Kingsley) · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewHow does the repeated mask image explain the difference between public appearance and private suffering?We Wear the MaskPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftHow does the repeated word “nevermore” change from an answer into a trap for the speaker’s thinking?The RavenEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricHow does the scene turn names from labels into obstacles the characters try to reason around?The Tragedy of Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does the setting make an entrance feel inevitable before the rider appears?The HighwaymanAlfred Noyes · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the snow move Gabriel's realization beyond Michael Furey and beyond Gabriel himself?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does the speaker define love by describing what it refuses to do?Sonnet 116William Shakespeare · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the stage metaphor organize a lifetime while also making individual importance seem temporary?As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does the story make a voluntary choice feel like a trap?The Monkey's PawW. W. Jacobs · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationHow does Toad turn genuine kindness into evidence of his own importance?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Tom make work desirable without ever arguing that whitewashing is fun?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricHow does Truth answer an abstract argument about equality with evidence from lived experience?Speech to the Ohio Women's Conference: Ain't I a Woman?Sojourner Truth · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Twain imitate moral advice in order to undermine it?Advice to Little GirlsMark Twain · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow does Vera build a believable lie?The Open WindowSaki · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftHow does Viola tell Olivia the truth about herself without revealing the disguise?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Voltaire make Pangloss's reasoning sound orderly and absurd at the same time?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftHow does Washington change the meaning of 'cast down your bucket' when he turns from Black listeners to white listeners?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Argument & Rhetoric · +1 moreHow does Wheatley elevate a current political struggle by placing it inside epic and divine imagery?To His Excellency, General WashingtonPhillis Wheatley · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Wheatley use the poem’s closing turn to challenge the racial judgment named earlier in the poem?On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaPhillis Wheatley · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyHow does Woolf make Mabel’s dress become a screen onto which she projects an entire social judgment?The New DressVirginia Woolf · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricHow does Woolf turn small interruptions into evidence about who is permitted intellectual freedom?A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewHow does Wordsworth redefine what it means to "see" nature as he grows older?Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern AbbeyWilliam Wordsworth · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaHow does Wright turn witnessing cruelty into an obligation to intervene?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Context & HistoryHow does Zitkala-Sa make Tusee’s courage both inherit and revise the warrior tradition?A Warrior's DaughterZitkala-Sa · Grade 1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewHow has living among giants changed Gulliver's sense of what counts as normal?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationHow much of Montresor's plan does he reveal to Fortunato before Fortunato understands it?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceHow much of what Pip 'knows' in the opening actually comes from evidence?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Argument & RhetoricWhat argument does Macbeth make against himself?MacbethWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat becomes possible once Time is treated as someone who can be offended?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat breaks the spell of stopping, and why does the poem repeat the reason for leaving?Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningRobert Frost · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes in Edna before she has actually swum very far?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat changes in Mary's voice once she admits that she is lonely?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat changes once Utterson can replace an imagined Hyde with a person he has actually seen?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes the instant Dimmesdale makes his hidden identity public?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when a word becomes more than a signal?The Story of My LifeHelen Keller · Grade 630 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat changes when Catherine stops trying to persuade her father but does not stop intending to marry Morris?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaWhat changes when Franklin calls something he once excused an 'erratum' of his life?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Hancock reports war through the work of caring for bodies rather than battlefield glory?Letters of a Civil War NurseCornelia Hancock · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat changes when Isabel can name her husband's opposition to Ralph as opposition to her freedom of mind?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Mrs. Grose can name the man the governess has described?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat changes when Paine says the decision belongs not just to the present but to posterity?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat changes when Raskolnikov's confession becomes one plain sentence with no theory attached?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat does 'admirable old maid' conceal about the costs of Catherine's self-sufficient life?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does 'prisoner for life' reveal about how Chandler interprets family responsibility in this moment?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Achilles reveal about his values when he describes a choice between long life and lasting fame?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Ahab's pasteboard-mask metaphor allow him to claim about the white whale?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Bottom's desire to play every role reveal about what he thinks acting is for?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does calling herself a 'screen' reveal about the role the governess has begun to assign herself?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Chaucer make us notice before he tells us what to think?The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Colin experience in the garden that changes 'I want to get well' into 'I shall get well'?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Context & HistoryWhat does Curly's death teach Buck that no command or explanation could have taught him?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Don Quixote reject when he says he is Alonso Quixano again?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Dorian's wish reveal about what he has learned to value in only a few minutes?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat does Edna object to in Robert's idea that her husband could 'set her free'?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Franklin gain—and risk—by treating virtue as something that can be tracked in a table?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Gatsby's answer to 'You can't repeat the past' reveal about what he thinks desire can control?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Hamlet do when he realizes that suspicion is not the same thing as proof?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhat does Hawkeye reveal by asserting his identity while admitting his own people's wrongdoing?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhat does Hawthorne gain by describing the house as if it were a face?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does Holmes's brain-attic metaphor allow him to justify that Watson finds absurd?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Huck’s final refusal to be ‘sivilized’ reveal about what he still wants at the end of the novel?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Iago reveal about himself by saying that faithful service can be a form of deception?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Ichabod's imagination reveal about what he wants when he thinks about Katrina?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Isabel mean when she says marrying Lord Warburton would be 'giving up' even though she would gain so much?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Ishmael gain by reversing the usual meanings of sanity and insanity?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Jo's imagined future reveal about what she values before she has achieved any of it?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Knightley make Emma see that she did not see when she joked about Miss Bates?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Lucy gain by telling Elinor about her engagement to Edward?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does Marianne's definition of a suitable husband make almost impossible before she has met one?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Marley's chain make visible about responsibility?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does Montresor's definition of 'successful' revenge reveal before the plot even begins?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaWhat does Nancy risk when she steps between Fagin and Oliver?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Othello's refusal to name what he is about to do allow him to believe about himself?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does Pip decide the instant he hears the news—and what evidence is actually missing?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryWhat does Prospero's “’Tis new to thee” add to Miranda's praise of the people she sees?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat does the adults' reaction to one ordinary request reveal about the workhouse system?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat does the crash do to Rat's grand declaration about boating?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhat does the darkened bazaar make the narrator understand about the story he has been telling himself?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does the doll metaphor let Nora say about both her father and her marriage?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does the failed Saturday teach the March sisters that Marmee's warning alone did not?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat does the governess actually know after seeing the man on the tower, and what has she already begun to infer?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does the image of thoughts moving in a circle reveal about Silas's relationship with gold?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat does the macaroon scene establish about Nora and Torvald before the serious secret is revealed?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of View · Argument & RhetoricWhat does the narrator accidentally prove?The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & Craft · Context & HistoryWhat does the repeated word 'my' reveal about how Kurtz understands people, land, and power?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat does Thoreau mean by calling resignation a form of desperation rather than acceptance?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Thoreau want to remove from life in order to discover what life actually is?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat does Uncas abandoning his rifle reveal about what matters most in the pursuit?The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat does Washington learn by traveling before deciding what Tuskegee should teach?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens to Hank's idea of progress when his inventions make fifty-four men 'masters' over thousands of dead?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhat happens to Henry's idea of courage once he sees brave-looking men run?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhat happens to human importance when Wells makes us the creatures under the microscope?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens when the language of spectacle is placed directly beside the bodies it describes?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhat happens when the symbol meant to humiliate Hester becomes the most beautiful thing she wears?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhat is ironic about Lord Henry's argument that influence destroys individuality?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat is logical about Tom's argument even if the supernatural premise is not?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat is the cost of Ulysses withholding the truth about Scylla from his crew?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat is the difference between the Doctor saying Morris belongs to the wrong 'category' and Morris insisting Catherine marries an individual?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of View · Argument & RhetoricWhat is wrong with the Cat's proof that Alice must be mad?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhat kinds of responsibility can Prospero's 'I acknowledge mine' mean?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhat limit does Raskolnikov try to place on his idea that extraordinary people may break the law?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes Buck's love for Thornton different from every earlier human relationship in his life?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat makes Dantès stop treating Faria's treasure as proof of madness?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat makes Holmes's Afghanistan deduction feel impossible before he explains it and ordinary after he does?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhat makes Lockwood's encounter frightening even if the reader does not decide whether the ghost is real?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhat makes rope-dancing a satire of political advancement rather than merely a strange custom?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhat makes the forged letter convincing to Malvolio even when its clues are weak?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes the knitting more threatening than an ordinary written list?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhat makes Tom's kite-line more important than luck in finding the way out of the cave?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhat makes Van Helsing's description of Dracula sound investigative rather than legendary?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat should a reader do when the evidence breaks the theory?The Time MachineH. G. Wells · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhat tension exists between the choice as it happened and the story the speaker expects to tell about it later?The Road Not TakenRobert Frost · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhen Colin calls Magic a scientific experiment, which parts of his method can actually be tested?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhen does devotion become an argument against reality?Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhen does Estella's contempt stop belonging to Estella and start belonging to Pip?Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & CraftWhen does the portrait stop being a record of beauty and become a moral instrument?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhen does Victor stop sounding like the person responsible?FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhen Montresor says his heart grows sick because of the damp, what does the surrounding evidence allow us to question?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhen should we trust the narrator?The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhere has Catherine learned the language she uses to diminish herself?Washington SquareHenry James · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhich action is the strongest evidence that Scrooge's transformation is more than a promise?A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhich details in the final exchange support the governess's interpretation, and which keep another interpretation possible?The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhich details support Brom Bones more strongly than the supernatural explanation?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhich part of Dantès's escape depends on preparation rather than luck?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhich step in Hamlet's reasoning turns the possibility of death from a solution into a problem?HamletWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhich understands the cold more accurately—the man or the dog—and what kind of knowledge does each possess?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy are 'wait and hope' a different kind of wisdom from Monte Cristo's earlier need to control outcomes?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Structure & Point of ViewWhy are Emma's greatest disadvantages invisible to Emma herself?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy are the Academy's projects funny rather than merely unusual?Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & CraftWhy can a scrap of paper frighten Billy Bones more than a visible weapon?Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy do Madame Merle and Isabel disagree about whether possessions and surroundings express the self?The Portrait of a LadyHenry James · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does 'Where yeh hit?' terrify Henry when the speaker means it kindly?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does a poem that promises to “count” love keep moving beyond measurement?How Do I Love Thee?Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does a scene full of pleasure lead the speaker to lament human behavior?Lines Written in Early SpringWilliam Wordsworth · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Achilles choose to return to battle immediately after Thetis tells him it will bring his own death closer?The IliadHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does Alice treat changing size as evidence that she may have become a different person?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Anne describe staying in Avonlea as a bend in the road rather than the end of the road?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Anne discover a disadvantage in finally entering the luxurious room she once dreamed about?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Theme & Central IdeaWhy does Ariel's imagined human pity change Prospero more than the prisoners' suffering itself?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does Beauty's mother connect good breeding to behavior rather than pedigree alone?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Betsey reduce her hopes for David to three prohibitions instead of a list of achievements?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Burnett make Mary's discovery feel like both an accident and an invitation?The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Candide answer Pangloss's final theory with work instead of another argument?CandideVoltaire · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Catherine describe one love as foliage and the other as rock?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Chopin describe new understanding as something that both shows the way and forbids it?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does David begin by asking whether he will be the hero of his own life?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does David refuse to treat natural ability as enough?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Theme & Central IdeaWhy does destroying the portrait destroy Dorian instead of freeing him?The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy does Dickens describe one historical moment as two opposite things at once?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Structure & Point of ViewWhy does Dickens let the seamstress understand Carton's sacrifice before the narration explains it?A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Dostoevsky place the story of resurrection in a room with Raskolnikov and Sonia?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Douglass say that argument is no longer the right rhetorical tool at this point in the speech?What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Frederick Douglass · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Enfield stop describing Hyde as a man and compare him to a Juggernaut?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Eppie reject the 'strongest of all claims' that Godfrey thinks biology gives him?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Eveline's body become passive at the exact moment she must act?DublinersJames Joyce · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Franklin describe his dirty clothes, little money, and awkward appearance in such detail?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Franklin tell the speckled-axe story immediately after describing his failure at perfect Order?Autobiography of Ben FranklinBenjamin Franklin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Grahame give Mole and Rat a perfect revelation and then take the memory away?The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Hank say the world's consent to authority is finer than authority itself?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Harker describe the vampire women as both desirable and repulsive at the same time?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutesOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does Harker end a book made of journals and records by saying they are not proof?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Heathcliff ask Catherine both to torment him and never leave him?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Henry's final confidence require him to remember his shame rather than erase it?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Language & Craft · Context & HistoryWhy does Huck describe helping Jim as damnation at the moment the reader sees it as his strongest moral choice?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Huck pity people he knows have repeatedly harmed others?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & Motivation · Language & CraftWhy does Ishmael describe going to sea as an alternative to violence or despair?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does John refuse to accept good intentions as enough?Black BeautyAnna Sewell · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Character & MotivationWhy does Knightley connect difficulty speaking with the strength of his feeling?EmmaJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does knowing the exact temperature fail to mean that the man understands the danger?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Lincoln name slavery as the cause of war and then refuse to claim that God simply favors one side?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Lincoln pair 'high hope' with a refusal to predict victory?Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural AddressAbraham Lincoln · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Lockwood's final peaceful scene refuse to settle whether the dead are at rest?Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Context & HistoryWhy does Marlow describe the Company's city as something clean on the outside and corrupt within?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does Marlow replace Kurtz's actual last words with the Intended's name?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Montresor keep offering Fortunato ways not to come?The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan Poe · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does Nick call Gatsby 'worth the whole damn bunch' after spending the novel criticizing him?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Nora say coming back would require both people to change?A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does opening the cent-shop feel like a public fall to Hepzibah rather than simply a new job?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does Orsino ask for more music in order to stop wanting it?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does Paine begin by separating society from government instead of treating them as the same thing?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy does Paine treat habit itself as an obstacle to political reasoning?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Pasteur present criticism as a discipline researchers must direct at their own ideas?Worship the Spirit of CriticismLouis Pasteur · Grade 1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Prospero move from a vanished entertainment to the claim that the world itself will dissolve?The TempestWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does Raskolnikov keep revising his explanation of why he killed the pawnbroker?Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does seeing the transformation fail to make Lanyon feel certain about what he knows?Dr. Jekyll & Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does sweeping one room tell the teacher something an ordinary entrance exam would not?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does Tagore make the longest outward journey lead inward?12 (from Gitanjali)Rabindranath Tagore · Grade 930 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central Idea · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Tess believe Angel's confession creates the conditions for forgiveness, and what exposes that belief as mistaken?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Tess call herself a murderess when the people around her do not?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the daguerreotype become evidence against Judge Pyncheon's respectable appearance?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the dog survive the same cold that kills the man?To Build a FireJack London · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does the green light lose its 'colossal significance' when Daisy is beside Gatsby?The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does the hermit answer the questions with events instead of definitions?The Three QuestionsLeo Tolstoy · Grade 730 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the hidden casket matter before Dantès even opens it?The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy does the narrator keep comparing Martian machinery to familiar human things?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy does the natural world seem to change when Hester removes the letter?The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does the poem make being “Somebody” sound less desirable than being “Nobody”?I'm Nobody! Who are you?Emily Dickinson · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionContext & HistoryWhy does the restraint of the starving crew become more mysterious to Marlow the more he thinks about it?Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does the squirrel feel like proof to Henry even though it cannot answer the moral question he is asking?The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy does the wedding ring resist the meaning Edna tries to force onto it?The AwakeningKate Chopin · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy does the word RACHE produce more information when Holmes refuses the obvious interpretation?A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Language & Craft · Argument & RhetoricWhy does Theseus group the lunatic, the lover, and the poet together?A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau defend moving at a different pace rather than simply choosing a different destination?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau move from 'governs not at all' to asking immediately for a better government?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Thoreau say majority rule explains who wins but not who is right?Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Thoreau surround his command to simplify with images of counting, clutter, storms, and navigation?WaldenHenry David Thoreau · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Thornton's death change the call of the forest from temptation into something Buck can finally obey?The Call of the WildJack London · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy does Tom's testimony count as courage even though he is terrified?The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Ulysses design a plan that assumes his future self cannot be trusted?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy does Viola treat disguise as a way to act rather than merely hide?Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Washington argue that restricting Black advancement harms the people doing the restricting?Up From SlaveryBooker T. Washington · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy does Wells end the invasion by making the smallest organisms stronger than the strongest machines?The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy doesn't Sancho's accurate explanation of the windmills change Don Quixote's belief?Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is 'sentence first—verdict afterwards' funny and threatening at the same time?Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is Barkis's repeated message funnier and more revealing than a direct proposal?David CopperfieldCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is Bartleby’s first refusal more disruptive because of the way he phrases it?Bartleby, the ScrivenerHerman Melville · Grade 1130 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & MotivationWhy is being 'Anne of Green Gables' already better to Anne than being the imaginary Lady Cordelia?Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is certainty more painful to Elinor than an event she had already told herself was certain?Sense and SensibilityJane Austen · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionArgument & RhetoricWhy is Eppie's claim that 'nobody could be happier' a stronger ending than restoring everything Silas lost?Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionTheme & Central IdeaWhy is Huck's apology important precisely because he has been taught that it should humiliate him?Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is Ishmael saved by an object designed for death?Moby DickHerman Melville · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is Nancy's understanding of her situation not enough to make escape possible for her?Oliver TwistCharles Dickens · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy is Othello's claim that he is 'rude' in speech difficult to believe by the end of his defense?OthelloWilliam Shakespeare · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the bed a better test of identity than Ulysses' appearance?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Argument & RhetoricWhy is the bird’s song not evidence that the cage has been accepted?SympathyPaul Laurence Dunbar · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is the destroyed manuscript more than simply a possession Jo has lost?Little WomenLouisa May Alcott · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & Craft · Argument & Rhetoric · Context & HistoryWhy is the island/continent comparison more persuasive than simply saying England is far away?Common SenseThomas Paine · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionCharacter & Motivation · Language & CraftWhy is the letter's position under the carpet more important than anything Tess wrote inside it?Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & Inference · Structure & Point of ViewWhy is the mirror more disturbing to Harker than simply noticing something strange about Dracula?DraculaBram Stoker · Grade 9-1030 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEvidence & InferenceWhy is the name 'Noman' useful only because Ulysses predicts how language will work later?The OdysseyHomer · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLanguage & CraftWhy is the poem’s peaceful future more unsettling than reassuring?There Will Come Soft Rains - poemSara Teasdale · Grade 830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionStructure & Point of ViewWhy is the telephone-office sentence funnier because it appears inside a place famous for miracles?A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the thrown 'head' more suspicious once Ichabod expects the Horseman to vanish at the bridge?The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving · Grade 6-830 minutes totalOpen →Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionLiterary StudyWhy is the ticking watch more frightening than a dramatic description of the Judge's death?The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne · Grade 11-1230 minutes totalOpen →5Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Character · +5 moreThe Words They UseK–5 Reading · Grades 2-3Built from 5 source booksFlexible timingOpen →6Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Character · +5 moreUsing the EvidenceK–5 Reading · Grades 2-3Built from 6 source booksFlexible timingOpen →7Unit planWhat they tried nextK–5 Reading Units · Grades 2-3Built from 7 source booksFlexible timingOpen →4Reading lessonMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionInference · Cause & Effect · Compare & Contrast · +2 moreThe Story Gets BiggerK–5 Reading · GRADES K-3Built from 4 source booksFlexible timingOpen →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionProblem SolvingAlbert is NOT ScaredMath focusMatching each move of one ride to the refusal it answers and naming the one left overGrade K · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert Keeps ScoreMath focusDeciding whether two sets are the same by matching them one to oneGrade K · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert's Amazing SnailMath focusPlacing an object at a named position and saying the position wordGrade K · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Problem SolvingMake a Wish, Albert!Math focusNaming three-dimensional solids in everyday objectsGrade K · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreA Place for ZeroMath focusBundling ten ones into one ten and putting a zero in the emptied ones placeGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAlbert the Muffin-MakerMath focusNaming ordinal position in an ordered list of tenGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingBad Luck BradMath focusSaying why the likelier colour can still fail to come outGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingClock Struck One, TheMath focusReading the hour and the minutes on the two sides of a digital clockGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCounting on Fall (Math in Nature)Math focusMaking ten from two parts, and finding more than one pair that worksGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingCounting with Sebastian Pig and Friends on the FarmMath focusSkip counting to one hundred by twos, fives and tensGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingDealing with AdditionMath focusFinding every different way one hand of cards makes a total of fiveGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreElla Earns Her Own MoneyMath focusRunning a total forward through six printed checkpoints, adding one, two or four dollars at a time and never passing twentyGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Money · Problem SolvingGabriel Gets a Great DealMath focusAdding a ten-dollar shipping charge to a price and testing the total against the most a family may spendGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingGrandma's Button BoxMath focusSorting one set by a single attribute so that every button lands in exactly one groupGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingIf the Shoe FitsMath focusMeasuring a length by laying same-size units end to end and counting themGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseLily Learns about Wants and NeedsMath focusSorting a set of things into two groups by a rule the book statesGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Geometry · Problem SolvingMath Fair BluesMath focusTesting two shapes for same size and same shapeGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingMiss Penny Says Prove It!Math focusHolding a count of sixteen steady while the objects are moved and rearrangedGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingOn My Way to Grandma's HouseMath focusDeciding which of two numbers is closer to a third by counting both ways and comparing the two countsGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingPlay DateMath focusNaming the day that comes after a named dayGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingSizing Up WinterMath focusMeasuring a length by laying one unit end to end and saying the count with its unitGrade 1 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingSubtracting with Sebastian Pig and Friends on a Camping TripMath focusSubtracting to find how many are missing, within twelveGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreSubtraction ActionMath focusWriting a subtraction equation for a take-away story and naming the answer the differenceGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Patterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingSuper SpecsMath focusPredicting the next number in a pattern and saying which rule you usedGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingToo-Tall TinaMath focusOrdering three people by height and saying each comparison both waysGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Patterns & Algebra · Problem SolvingWhat's Next, NinaMath focusFinding the repeating unit in a repeating patternGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingWhere's HarleyMath focusCrossing an ordered list off to find the one place leftGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingWho's Got SpotsMath focusSorting a named group into three data categories, one member to one categoryGrade 1 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingA Frog's LifeMath focusPlacing the weeks a book names on a number lineGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingAll Aboard!Math focusReading a written clock time as an hour and the minutes past that hourGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCarrie Measures UpMath focusMeasuring a length in whole inches with a tape and recording itGrade 2 · Full book collection10 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingCollection for Kate, AMath focusAdding five two-digit and one-digit addends with regroupingGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreCount on PabloMath focusSkip counting by twos and fivesGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingDeena's Lucky PennyMath focusCoin values and equal exchangeGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Problem SolvingEven or OddMath focusEven and odd by grouping in twosGrade 2 · Full book collection7 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Geometry · +2 moreFair is Fair!Math focusBuilding a bar graph with a numbered scale and one square for one unitGrade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingFibonacci ZooMath focusAdding two numbers to make the next in a rowGrade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Geometry · +1 moreFishy MysteryMath focusSorting a set of shapes into a two-circle diagram by two attributesGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreFollow the Money!Math focusCoin values and coin equivalence to one dollarGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingGame Time!Math focusQuarter, half and three quarters of an hour as parts of sixty minutesGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingIt's About Time, Max!Math focusNaming the hour hand and the minute hand on an analog clockGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingIts TimeMath focusTelling time to the hour from the positions of the two handsGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingKeep Your Distance!Math focusBuilding one foot from twelve inches and one yard from three feetGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · MoneyKyle Keeps Track of CashMath focusReading what a coin is worth and counting a handful of coins to one amountGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingLights Out!Math focusSubtracting a one-digit number from a two-digit count by counting backGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +1 moreLulu's LemonadeMath focusComparing the capacity of two containers by pouring one into the otherGrade 2 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreMac & Cheese, Pleeeeze!Math focusAdding a two-digit number by adding its tens, then its onesGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Problem SolvingMeasuring with Sebastian Pig and Friends on a Road TripMath focusMeasuring a height in inches with a yardstick, lining the 1 up with the bottom edgeGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · MoneyMoney CountsMath focusDeciding whether an amount covers a price, and finding the changeGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreMoney MathMath focusFinding change by removing named coins and counting what staysGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreMoney Math with Sebastian Pig and Friends at the Farmer's MarketMath focusSubtracting within one hundred to track money remainingGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingOcean Counting Odd NumbersMath focusSkip counting by twos from one within 50Grade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Number Sense · Problem SolvingOn the Scale, a Weighty TaleMath focusChoosing a fitting unit of weight for an objectGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Fractions & Decimals · Number Sense · +2 moreOnce Upon a DimeMath focusCoin worth: penny, nickel, dime, quarterGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingRabbits, Rabbits Everywhere: A Fibonacci TaleMath focusAdding the two numbers before to find the nextGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingRuby Makes It EvenMath focusDeciding whether a group is odd or even by pairing everyone offGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreShanti Saves Her MoneyMath focusCounting four equal prices of twenty dollars to the cost of a family's ticketsGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGeometry · Problem SolvingShaping Up SummerMath focusTelling a solid shape from the flat shape it looks likeGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +2 moreShark SwimathonMath focusSubtracting a two-digit number from a two-digit number, trading a ten when the ones will not giveGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreSplitting the HerdMath focusSplitting a group into two equal shares by counting offGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreThe 100-Pound ProblemMath focusAdding stated weights and deciding whether a load stays under a limitGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Patterns & Algebra · Money · +1 moreThe Coin Counting BookMath focusCoin equivalence: trading pennies and nickels for one coin of the same valueGrade 2 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number SenseThe Great Graph ContestMath focusSorting a collection into two groups by an attribute you choose, and labelling themGrade 2 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionFractions & Decimals · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Grizzly GazetteMath focusReading a percent of the hundred campers as a count of campersGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem SolvingThe Long WaitMath focusEstimating a large group from the size of one group, then testing it by countingGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingTightwad TodMath focusTaking whole dollars away from an amount and counting what is left, within twentyGrade 2 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Patterns & Algebra · +1 moreWhere's Albert?Math focusSkip counting by tens to 100Grade 2 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Problem SolvingZero, Zilch, NadaMath focusFinding what is left after each of three losses from one hundredGrade 2 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Number Sense · Problem Solving2 X 2 = Boo!Math focusMultiplication as equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Number Sense · +2 moreAlice In PastalandMath focusIterating a half-pound unit to a whole number of poundsGrade 3 · Full book collection11 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number Sense · Problem SolvingAsk MiaMath focusMaking a scaled pictograph with a key of tenGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Geometry · +1 moreChickens on the MoveMath focusFinding a perimeter by going all the way around a figure and adding every side onceGrade 3 · Full book collection4 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber Sense · Money · Problem SolvingDinosaur DealsMath focusEqual value in a stated exchange rateGrade 3 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMoney · Problem SolvingEverybody Wins!Math focusEqual sharing of one amount among a changing number of 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Decimals · +2 moreManga Math Mysteries #5: The Ancient FormulaMath focusSubtracting a unit fraction from one whole with like denominatorsGrade 3 · Full book collection15 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionAddition & Subtraction · Number Sense · Problem SolvingMath on the MoveMath focusAdding a delay in hours and minutes to a timetabled time and deciding whether a walk still fitsGrade 3 · Full book collection5 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number SenseMultiply By HandMath focusReading a two-digit product off a finger arrangementGrade 3 · Full book collection10 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreMultiplying Menace: The Revenge of RumpelstiltskinMath focusMultiplication as equal groupsGrade 3 · Full book collection13 lessons · choose oneOpen 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& Decimals · +2 moreFollow Your MoneyMath focusAdding a column of money amounts and subtracting to find what is leftGrade 4 · Full book collection15 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionFractions & Decimals · Number Sense · Money · +1 moreFractions, Decimals, and PercentsMath focusWriting an amount of cents as a fraction of a dollar, a decimal, and a percentGrade 4 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +1 moreKitchen MathMath focusFinding a scale factor from a serving count and dividing ingredient amounts by itGrade 4 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionEqual Groups · Measurement · Addition & Subtraction · +2 moreMusic MathMath focusAdding halves and whole beats to a stated totalGrade 4 · Full book collection14 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Book 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oneOpen collection →Book lessonsMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionMeasurement · Addition & Subtraction · Number Sense · +2 moreZachary Zormer, Shape Transformer: A Math AdventureMath focusDistinguishing perimeter from area on the same rectangleGrade 4 · Full book collection12 lessons · choose oneOpen collection →Math unitMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseMatching before countingGrade K · 6 lessons · 5 booksBuilt from 5 source books6 lessons · multi-day unitOpen unit →Math unitSaying where something isGrade K · 7 lessons · 3 booksBuilt from 3 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen unit →Math unitMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionGraphing · Number SenseA graph that answers a questionGrade 1 · 7 lessons · 5 booksBuilt from 5 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen unit →Math unitMinnesota Curriculum ConnectionNumber SenseDays, weeks and a calendar rowGrade 1 · 7 lessons · 3 booksBuilt from 3 source books7 lessons · multi-day unitOpen unit →Math unitMinnesota Curriculum 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