Learning Tasks

Developed by master teachers, based on standards, tasks for students are provided for each story for quick engagement with the stories on a deeper, reflective, critical-thinking level.

Despite his age and several injuries, Jim Morris becomes a successful professional baseball player. Pick a character education word that can be used t...

Night at the Museum is a fictional story that features actual characters from history. Pick one of these five characters from the movie: Meriwether Le...

Read a story with attention to the plot as it unfolds and how the characters respond. Write a one page narrative essay describing sequential events fr...

Write a 3-5 sentence paragraph explaining examples of cause and effect from the text.

Determine the sequence of events in this text. Write an essay in 200-250 words. Include sequencing words -first, next, then, last.

Write five paragraphs explaining how the 1) characters, 2) events, and 3) ideas change in the text from beginning to end.

Find at least 3 examples of cause and effect in the text. Combine the "cause" sentence with the "effect" sentence by adding signal words. Write 3 sent...

Look at these two texts (comparable texts chosen by teacher). Compare the structure of both texts ( (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, probl...

Read the Awesome Story titled C.S. Lewis and follow all the provided links within the story. This is a story about the famous author Clive Staples (C....

Read the Awesome Story titled Shadowlands and follow all the provided links within the story. This is a story about the famous author Clive Staples (C...

Read the Amistad Incident story, look at the images, watch the videos. What is this story about? What happened to the Africans, what they did to save ...

Read the story and determine the theme or central idea of the story. Describe the development of this theme through the chapters and primary sources c...

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