Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
Hero's Journey
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Book Cover Guide
3 - 8
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.
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Hints about Print
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project.
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Animal Inquiry
3 - 6
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
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Fact Fragment Frenzy
1 - 6
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary students with an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text, then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.
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Drama Map
6 - 12
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Students analyzing a play can map out the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution for a variety purposes. This interactive is aimed at secondary students.
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Literary Elements Map
6 - 12
Student Interactive
| Inquiry & Analysis
Students can map out the key literary elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution as prewriting for their own fiction or as analysis of a text by another author in this secondary-level interactive.