Grade 11 ELA

Book Award Winners

• Young Reader's Choice Awards - Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Junior Division, Grades 4-6, Intermediate Division: Grades 7-9, Senior Division: Grades 10-12

• Edmonds School District Windows & Mirrors Nominees - Grades 3-8

• Evergreen Teen Book Award - Middle school and high school levels

• Washington Library Association Book Awards - The William C. Towner Award for informational text for grades 2-6; The Sasquatch Award for grade 4-6; The Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award (WCCPBA) for grades K-3; The OTTER Award for grades 1-3.

Brave Writer Mechanics and Literature

Website: Brave Writer Mechanics and Literature

Dart for ages 8-10; Arrow for ages 11-12; Boomerang for ages 13-14; Singshot for ages 15-18. Offered as monthly subscriptions, but single issues, "Literature Singles," are also available. New book titles every year. Digital only.

Each program provides one book title per month along with discussion questions and exercises for improving grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Students may write about the discussion topics, but writing is not the focus of the series. See Brave Writer Writing Projects for information on the writing series.

Build Your Library

Website: Build Your Library

K-12. A literature-based curriculum offering resources for language arts, history, science, and art. The language arts part of the curriculum includes literature to read aloud in each level of the program, as well as readers for students to read independently in levels three and up.

Although Build Your Library does not provide writing instruction, there are writing prompts and suggestions for writing projects, and students do narration, copywork, and dictation. The science and social studies topics in each level differ from what is typically taught in the grade levels of a standards-aligned program, but are still important.

Crash Course Literature - Free!

Website: Crash Course Literature

A collection of short, fast-paced videos, each providing an overview of a notable work of literature or author. Videos are approximately 10-12 minutes long. No discussion questions or assignments. Episodes include: 1984; Their Eyes Were Watching God; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Shakespeare's Sonnets; Lord of the Flies; 100 Years of Solitude; Invisible Man; Sula; The Poetry of Sylvia Plath; Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance; Beloved; Slaughterhouse Five; To Kill a Mockingbird; Things Fall Apart; Jane Eyre; Frankenstein; Hamlet; Fate, Family and Oedipus Rex; The Odyssey; Emily Dickinson' Poetry; Catcher in the Rye; The Great Gatsby; Romeo and Juliet.

Great Works Instructional Guides for Literature

Website: Great Works

Workbook literature guides grouped by grade band for students in K-3rd, 3rd-5th, 4th-8th, 9th-12th . The guides provide vocabulary work and activities to help understand story elements, and there are comprehension questions which ask students to use evidence from their reading to respond to prompts orally and in writing. Graphic organizers and other tools help students organize their ideas. Some assignments make connections to other subject areas such as science, social studies, and fine arts.

High School English Options - Free!

Website: High School English Options

This online resource provides scheduling ideas and activity recommendations for creating a custom language arts course.

Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel

Website: Rigorous Reading series

The Rigorous Reading literature guides series isn't as extensive as the Great Works Instructional Guides for Literature, but it does offer a couple of workbooks which are not tied to a particular novel and can be used with almost any literature book:

• Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel Grades 3-5

• Rigorous Reading: An In-Depth Guide for Any Novel Grades 6 & Up