Links to Lesson plans that include the reading passage.                                                            

http://schools.wcpss.net/Root/langarts/langartslinks.html A Lead Teacher with links to two other state test samples.

  Narrative Containing Conflict, Character, Setting and Theme: Children's Story

http://pd.l2l.org/success/lessons/Lesson2/Lesson2a/HLAj3_L.HTM A very good site for Robert Frost with links to his poems you can down load.

http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/l4.hts?id=9712&core=1 Narrative Containing Conflict, Character, Setting and Theme: Adventure Story  A very good site with 5 downloads for samples and worksheets.  Complete you will be happy to go here.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html This is a very powerful site from the New York Times.  It features many, many complete lessons tied to curriculum objectives plus...complete newspaper articles you can down load.  Great source of non fiction articles.  For NC EOG about 10-20% of reading EOG is newspaper articles.  The reading level is Middle School +.

http://www.historyinfilm.com/gwtw/index.htm  A plot outline of Gone with The Wind.  This does not really belong here, but would any child's education be complete without an understanding of Scarlet O'Hara character.  We just have to develop more material to support this. Middle School

http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/ozteach.html Wizard of Oz.  Maybe the definitive site.  "You are not in Kansas anymore."

 http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAReadingSetting23.htm A short passage and questions about setting.

http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=1107 Nice lesson on Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.  Grades 7-8+

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/html/783751523-447DED81.html Eskimo myths and story telling, with a illustrated down loadable story with questions. Nice.

http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm   Great Site with worksheets with articles to download, main idea, vocabulary from context, plus graded worksheets for Windows 95/98 computers. http://www.schoolexpress.com/comped/cat-graded.asp?category=GradedWorksheets

http://www.geocities.com/edickinson2002/  Emily Dickinson Page, biographies and poems on line and black cake recipe.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html  Site with on-line children stories on the web.