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Online Self-Paced Literature Lessons

Online Self-Paced Lessons from HelpTeaching.com

Our collection of ELA lessons is designed to help students build core grammar, reading, and writing skills. Topics range from understanding relative pronouns to summarizing key details in a text and constructing a quality paragraph.

Our lessons for middle/high school students are meant for self-directed online learning. Many of our lessons contain a short introduction, followed by an embedded video created by Help Teaching team or obtained with permission from sources, such as Khan Academy, Educator.com, and Bozeman Science and links to other free online resources to help students understand the topic. Lessons without a video source noted are text and image-based, similar to what students would find in a textbook. All lessons also include practice questions to use for pre-assessment and practice, as well as links to longer, more formal tests and worksheets to assess what students have learned.

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Lesson Name Grade Time
help teaching Read-Aloud: Five Little Ducks Kindergarten 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Ants Go Marching Kindergarten 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Little Red Hen Kindergarten 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Clumsy Penguin (A Movement Story) Grade 1 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Three Billy Goats Gruff Grade 1 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Dolphins Have Feelings, Too! Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Fortune Cookies Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Rumpelstiltskin Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Fairy Tulips Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Gingerbread Man Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Loch Ness Monster Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Princess and the Pea Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Story of Henny Penny Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Grade 2 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Baseball Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Cutting Onions Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Doppleganger Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Rosa Parks Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Sneezing Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Frog Prince Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Story of Ruby Bridges Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Tale of Peter Rabbit Grade 3 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Anansi Writes a Song Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Anansi and His Sons Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Barack Obama Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Martin Luther King, Jr. Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Collared Crow Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Elves and the Shoemaker Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Feast Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Great Drum Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Name of the Tree Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Purse of Gold Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Story of Hanukkah Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Tale of John Henry Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Velveteen Rabbit Grade 4 45-90 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: What Does the President Do? Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud:The Old Rocking Horse Grade 4 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: The Three Tests Grade 5 15-30 min assign
help teaching Read-Aloud: Who is Donald Trump? Grade 5 15-30 min assign
help teaching The Harlem Renaissance Grade 8 15-30 min assign
help teaching Phrases from Shakespeare Grade 9 15-30 min assign