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53 English / ELA resources.

The Cat Bandit — Grade 2 Reader

A Grade 2 decodable reader from Core Knowledge Language Arts — engaging short stories that build reading fluency and comprehension. Unit 1 of the Skills Strand.

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Reading

Dolch Sight Words Flash Cards

Printable Dolch pre-primer sight-word flash cards for early readers.

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Sight WordsReading

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer

The classic 19th-century primer used to teach early reading, one lesson at a time.

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ReadingPhonics

Grade 1 Skills Workbook (Unit 1)

Phonics and spelling skills workbook pages from the Core Knowledge Language Arts Grade 1 program.

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PhonicsSpelling

Poetry Activity Book — Listen, My Children

A 10-lesson poetry unit activity book covering metaphor, rhyme scheme, and repetition.

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PoetryFigurative Language

Grade 4 Reading Sample Questions

Released reading passages with comprehension questions from the national NAEP assessment.

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Reading ComprehensionAssessment

Grade 3 ELA Scaffolding Guide

A teacher scaffolding and differentiation guide for the Grade 3 EngageNY English Language Arts modules.

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ReadingDifferentiation

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll's classic novel — full text with the original John Tenniel illustrations.

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LiteratureReading

Just So Stories

Kipling's illustrated origin-fable stories ("How the Camel Got His Hump" and more).

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LiteratureReading

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson's beloved collection of poems for children.

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PoetryReading

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's classic illustrated tale — full text and pictures.

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LiteratureReading

Grade 2 Skills Workbook (Unit 2)

Grade 2 skills-strand student workbook: spelling, phonics, and grammar practice pages.

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PhonicsGrammar

Grade 3 Skills Workbook (Unit 3)

Grade 3 skills workbook covering spelling, dictionary use, grammar, and morphology.

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SpellingGrammar

Grade 4 ELA: Text Features Lesson

A nonfiction reading lesson on text features, from the EngageNY Grade 4 ELA curriculum.

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ReadingNonfiction

Grade 5 ELA Unit Overview

A Grade 5 ELA unit overview and lesson sequence focused on reading comprehension.

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Reading Comprehension

Kindergarten Skills Workbook (Unit 4)

Kindergarten phonics and handwriting practice pages from the Core Knowledge Language Arts Skills Strand.

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PhonicsHandwriting

Grade 1 Skills Workbook (Unit 4)

Grade 1 phonics and spelling practice pages from the CKLA Skills Strand.

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PhonicsSpelling

Grade 3 Skills Workbook (Unit 9)

Grade 3 spelling, grammar, and morphology practice pages from the CKLA Skills Strand.

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SpellingGrammar

Grade 3 Skills Workbook (Unit 5)

Grade 3 skills workbook with spelling, grammar, and writing practice.

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SpellingWriting

The Human Body — Read-Aloud Anthology

A Grade 1 read-aloud anthology introducing the human body — pairs literacy with science content.

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ReadingScience

Grade 8 Sample Questions (Math, Reading & Science)

Released NAEP Grade 8 sample questions including reading passages and comprehension items.

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Reading ComprehensionAssessment

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame's pastoral animal-fantasy of Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger.

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LiteratureReading

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling's tales of Mowgli among the animals of the Indian jungle.

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LiteratureReading

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell's autobiography of a horse — a foundational animal-welfare novel.

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LiteratureReading

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery's coming-of-age story of orphan Anne Shirley on Prince Edward Island.

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LiteratureReading

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum's tale of Dorothy's journey through Oz.

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LiteratureReading

Grimms' Fairy Tales

The classic Brothers Grimm fairy-tale collection — Cinderella, Snow White, and more.

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LiteratureReading

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens's tale of Scrooge's redemption via the three Christmas ghosts.

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LiteratureReading

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain's classic of boyhood mischief and adventure along the Mississippi.

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LiteratureReading

Heidi

Johanna Spyri's story of a Swiss orphan girl's life in the Alps.

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LiteratureReading

Aesop's Fables

A compact collection of Aesop's short moral fables — the Tortoise and the Hare and more.

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LiteratureReading

The Golden Staircase: Poems for Children

An anthology of 250+ classic children's poems by American and English writers.

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PoetryReading

Mother Goose Melodies

A facsimile of the classic Mother Goose nursery-rhyme collection.

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PoetryNursery Rhymes

The Secret Garden

A lonely girl discovers a hidden, locked garden — and helps it, and herself, come back to life.

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Classic LiteratureFiction

A Little Princess

Sara Crewe keeps her kindness and imagination even after riches turn to hardship at boarding school.

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Classic LiteratureFiction

Peter Pan

The boy who wouldn't grow up whisks the Darling children off to Neverland.

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Classic LiteratureFantasy

Treasure Island

Young Jim Hawkins sails after buried pirate gold — and meets the unforgettable Long John Silver.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

Little Women

The four March sisters grow up together through hardship, ambition, and love in Civil War-era New England.

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Classic LiteratureFiction

The Adventures of Pinocchio

A wooden puppet dreams of becoming a real boy — if he can learn to be honest and brave.

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Classic LiteratureFantasy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck and the runaway Jim raft down the Mississippi in Twain's landmark American novel.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

Robinson Crusoe

A shipwrecked sailor survives for years alone on a desert island by his wits.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

Gulliver's Travels

A traveler's voyages to lands of tiny people, giants, and stranger places still.

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Classic LiteratureSatire

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Beloved tales including The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

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Classic LiteratureFairy Tales

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

A jeweled statue and a little swallow learn the cost and beauty of kindness.

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Classic LiteratureFairy Tales

The Call of the Wild

Buck, a stolen dog, is pulled from a comfortable home into the wild North.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

White Fang

A wild wolf-dog's journey from the frozen wild toward trust and home.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

Around the World in Eighty Days

Phileas Fogg bets he can circle the globe in eighty days — and races the clock.

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Classic LiteratureAdventure

Through the Looking-Glass

Alice steps through a mirror into a topsy-turvy world of chess, riddles, and Jabberwocky.

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Classic LiteratureFantasy

The Railway Children

Three children move to the countryside and find adventure — and a mystery — beside the railway.

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Classic LiteratureFiction

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Twelve classic cases of the world's greatest detective and his friend Dr. Watson.

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Classic LiteratureMystery

Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy spar, misjudge, and slowly understand one another in Austen's classic.

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Classic LiteratureRomance

A Tale of Two Cities

Love and sacrifice set against London and Paris in the French Revolution.

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Classic LiteratureHistorical Fiction

Frankenstein

A young scientist creates life — and must face what he has made.

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Classic LiteratureScience Fiction