Reading Presentations Library

‘Day of Infamy’ Speech

‘To Be or Not To Be’ Soliloquy

‘Why Sit Here and Die’ Speech

“Hope” is The Thing With Feathers

A Bird, Came Down the Walk

A Dream Within a Dream

A New Nation (8th grade informational reading)

Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage

Adolescent Cliques

Adolf Hitler

African American History

Ain’t I a Woman

Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” Inauguration Day Poem January 20, 2021

Amazon’s Biodiversity (8th grade informational reading)

America

America and I

America’s Shifting Views on Immigration

American Revolution (7th grade informational reading)

An Abolition Traitor

An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774

An Excerpt from ‘A Woman Who Went to Alaska’

An Excerpt from Betsey Hull’s Wedding

An Excerpt from the The Jungle Book

An Incredible Job: Being America’s President

An Introduction to Communism

An Overview of the Great Depression

Anatomy and Physiology of Penguins (8th grade informational reading)

Ancient Egypt (6th grade informational reading)

Ancient Egyptian Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

Ancient Greece: The Birthplace of Western Individualism

Ancient Greek Architecture (7th grade informational reading)

Animal Crossing Characters

Annabel Lee

Antarctica – Geological History and Paleontology (7th grade informational reading)

Are Child Actors Exploited by the Film and TV Industry? (6th grade informational reading)

Are Green Technologies Worth the Investment? (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Are kids responsible for stepping in to prevent bullying? (5th grade informational reading)

Arriving at Emerald City

Articles of Confederation (8th grade informational reading)

Atomic Theory (8th grade informational reading)

Aztec Sacrifice

Because I Could not Stop for Death

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Beginning of Colonization (5th grade informational reading)

Black History Month

Budgets and Budgeting (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Bullying in Early Adolescence

Capitalism

Carrots with Character

Catacombe dei Cappuccini (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Challenges for Women and Children during the Industrial Revolution (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Characteristics of an Empire (7th grade informational reading)

Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter

Chemical Bond (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Christmas

Clash of Cultures: Indigenous America and the Conquistadores

Climate of the United States (8th grade informational reading)

Coastal Pollution (7th grade informational reading)

Combating Climate Change (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Commentary on “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

CommonLit Mini Unit – Genocide – “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Genocide – “President Clinton’s Remarks in Kigali on the Rwandan Genocide”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “A Respectable Woman”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “To my Dear and Loving Husband”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “What is a Dream?”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – Excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Morality – “The Storyteller”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Values and Beliefs – “Federigo’s Falcon”

CommonLit Mini Unit -Values and Beliefs – “The Devil”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “The Story of a Little Alsatian”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “Village Schools and Travelling Soldiers”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Heroes – “If We Must Die”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Heroes – “Sonnet”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Improving Society – “An Obstacle”

Compromise at the Convention (8th grade informational reading)

Conformity

Conservation as a National Duty

Credit (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction Event (8th grade informational reading)

Cultures and Government – The Middle East

Daylight Saving Time

DC Character Lore for Middle School Readers

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Deep Currents (7th grade informational reading)

Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets

Development of the Cold War (8th grade informational reading)

Different Types of Government

Digital History Project for Gilded Age Plains City – “Gilded Age”

Digital History Project for Martin Luther King Jr. – “About Martin Luther King Jr.”

Digital History Project for Martin Luther King Jr. – “RFK’s Speech Following the Death of MLK”

Digital History Project for Race and Place – “Excerpt from Southern Horrors”

Digital History Project for Spacial History – “History of Chinese Americans”

Digital History Project for The Texas Slavery Project – “Speech on Slavery”

Digital History Project for The Texas Slavery Project – “The Emancipation Proclaimation”

Domestic Changes (8th grade informational reading)

Dust of Snow

Early American Settlers (6th grade informational reading)

Early Signs of Civilization (7th grade informational reading)

Echo and Narcissus

Eclipses (7th grade informational reading)

Economics (8th grade informational reading)

Electoral College

Eleonora

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Ethos

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Logos

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Pathos

Empowering the Black Power Movement

Escape Artist (5th grade informational reading)

Europe – Explorers Take to the Sea (5th grade informational reading)

European Exploration (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Excerpt from ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle’

Excerpt from “Pride and Prejudice”

Excerpt from “Self-Reliance”

Excerpt from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Excerpt from Black Beauty

Excerpt from Frankenstein: The Creature’s Request

Excerpt from Heidi

Excerpt from The Adventures of Buster Bear

Excerpt from the Jungle

Excerpt from The Secret Garden

Excerpt from The Tempest

Fashion in the United States

Fast Food

Feathers

Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand

Financial Literacy

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Frederick Douglass: A Biography

From Juneteenth to the Tulsa massacre: What isn’t taught in classrooms has a profound impact

Georgia’s Natural Disaster: Nouns

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Adverbs

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Comparison Contrast Cues

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Highlight Supporting Details

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Prepositional Phrases

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Proper Nouns

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Sequence of Events

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Verbs

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech

Grade 7: Rikki-tikki-tavi (Adjectives & Adverbs)

Grum

Half-Life (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Halloween

Hamilton Character Guide

Helena by Benjamin Broke

Herd Behavior

High School Sports

How Jackie Robinson Changed Baseball

How the Last 5 Generations Have Changed Us

Human Rights in the United States

I am the People – The Mob

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I Hear America Singing

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ideas from Athens and Rome to Washington D.C. (7th grade informational reading)

If

Impact of Colonization

Importance of Oceans (7th grade informational reading)

Improving Society MiniUnit: Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

India Strives for Independence (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Indian History (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Industrialization Spreads (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

International Women’s Day

Internet Celebrities

Is it ‘Autumn or Fall’?

Jack and the Beanstalk

JFK’s ‘Race to Space’ Speech

Jigsaw Activity for any Content Reading

Kamala D Harris

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Kinetic Molecular Theory and Gases (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Language Death (7th grade informational reading)

Leonardo Da Vinci (7th grade informational reading)

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Letter From Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman

Love and Friendship

Malala Yousafzai’s Address to the United Nations (July, 2013)

Marvel Characters for Middle School Readers

Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)

Mending Wall

Mesopotamian Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (7th grade informational reading)

Middle East – Natural Resources (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Mirror Stage

Mixtures and Solutions (6th grade informational reading)

Mobile Phone Use in Schools

My Hero Academia

National Education Association

NATIONAL READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY (DR. SEUSS DAY) – March 2

Nature

New Netherland (5th grade informational reading)

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

No Man is an Island

Nomophobia

North American Indians

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nuclear Energy (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

O Captain! My Captain!

Obesity (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Ode on a Grecian Urn (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Olykoeks (5th grade informational reading)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

On Broadway

On Liberty and Slavery

On the Doctrine of Feeling Power

On the Education of Youth in America

On Tragedy

Our Countrymen in Chains

Oxidation-Reduction Reactions (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman

Passive Transport

Paul Revere’s Ride

Penguins are Funny Birds (5th grade informational reading)

Physical Geography of Russia (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Plate Tectonics (7th grade informational reading)

Politics and Privacy (7th grade informational reading)

Pollution in its Many Forms (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Prehistoric Europe (6th grade informational & literature reading)

President Woodrow Wilson’s Four Points

Proclamation on Read Across America day, 2021

Puritan laws and Character

Pygmalion

Race and Place Digital History Project: “Learning to Read” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Relaxation (psychology)

Reminiscences

Rights to the Streets of Memphis

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rumpelstilskin

Running Away, Buying Freedom and Rebellions (5th grade informational reading)

Salt Worth its Weight in Gold The Kingdom of Ghana

School Meals

Seasons (7th grade informational reading)

Self-Driving Cars

Settlers and American Indian Conflicts (5th grade informational reading)

Should there be a grade requirement to participate in sports? (5th grade informational reading)

Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)

Snow White

Social Media and the Effects on American Adolescents

Sonnet 18

Star Wars Lore for Middle School Readers

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Storm Ending

Story of an Hour

Story Telling

Strauss-Howe Generational Theory

Stress Management

Structure and Composition of the Cell Membrane

Struggles in Latin America (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Sub-Saharan Africa (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Summer Vacation

Sweat

Teens March for our Lives

Ten Stages of Genocide (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Thanksgiving

The Allegory of the Cave

The American Electoral Process

The Ants and the Grasshopper

The Assassination of the President

The Aztec Civilization

The Black Lives Matter Movement

The Black Man’s Burden

The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Cask of Amontillado

The Cell Cycle

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Constitution – The Preamble (8th grade informational reading)

The Constitutional Convention is Called (8th grade informational reading)

The Crow and the Pitcher

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

The Donkey, the Fox, and the Lion

The Ecchoing Green

The European Union (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Fall of the House of Usher

The First Americans (6th grade informational & literature reading)

THE FIRST AMERICANS: THE OLMEC

The First People of North America – Pacific Northwest American Indians (5th grade informational reading)

The Fisherman and His Wife

The Four Dragons

The Fox and the Horse

The Frog and the Mouse

The Fugitive Slave Bill

The Genome

The Gettysburg Address (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

The Gift of the Magi

The Goose With The Golden Egg

The Great Barrier Reef (8th grade informational reading)

The Great Migration (7th grade informational reading)

The Gunpowder Empires (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

The Harlem Renaissance

The Holocaust

The Human Body (5th grade informational reading)

The Impact of the Slave Trade (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

The Importation of Negroes Into Massachusetts

The Inca Civilization

The Indus Valley Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

The Interlopers

The Journal of a Slaver

The Lady of Shalott

The Last Leaf

The Lion and the Mouse

The Lion in Love

The Lord of the Rings – Impact on Popular Culture (7th grade informational reading)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Man of the Crowd

The Masque of the Red Death

The Maya Civilization

The Missouri Compromise (1820)

The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus

The Nature vs Nurture Debate

The Necklace

The New Colossus

The Ocean

The Old Oaken Bucket

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Plot of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess, the Dragon, and the Very Bad Knight

The Ransom Red Chief (6th grade literature reading)

The Raven

The Rich Man and the Bundle of Wood

The Rights to the Streets of Memphis

The Rise of Greek City-States: Athens Versus Sparta

The Rise of Mussolini (11th & 12th grade informational reading)

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Scientific Revolution (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Sit-In Movement

The Solitude of Self

The Southern Colonies (5th grade informational reading)

The Story of Prometheus and Pandora’s Box

The Story of Prometheus and Pandora’s Box

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education

The Tell Tale Heart

The Three Little Pigs

The Tradition of Thanksgiving (5th grade informational reading)

The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider

The Two Travelers

The Tyrant Who Became a Just Ruler

The Umbrella Academy Character Guide

The Underground Railroad (1871)

The Vikings (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Water Cycle (6th grade informational reading)

The White Man’s Burden

The Yellow Wallpaper

There’s a Certain Slant of Light

Thinking like a Historian

Thomas Jefferson on Shay’s Rebellion

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Tristan and Isolde

Turn, Turn, My Wheel

Types of Societies

U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V

U.S. Constitution: Articles I, IV, V

Underwater Clues to a Buried Village (7th grade informational reading)

United States Independence Day

United States Presidential Inauguration

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll’d!

Video Game Controversies

Virtual School

Washington’s Farewell Address

We Have Been Friends Together

We Wear the Mask

We’ll Soon Be Free

West African Empires – Ghana, Mali, Songhai (5th grade informational reading)

West African Society at the Point of European Contact

Western Democracies Stumble (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

What Are Clouds?

What Counts as History?

What is a New Year’s Resolution?

What is a Vaccine?

What is an Eclipse?

What is an Orbit?

What is Coronavirus?

What is Culture?

What is Democracy?

What is Government?

What is the International Space Station?

What Makes a Successful Online Learner?

What Past Generations Can Teach Us About Our Future

What Were the Four Zones of the World?(9th & 10th grade informational reading)

What were the motives behind European exploration? (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Who is Katherine Johnson?

Why it Matters That Teens are Reading Less

Why Songs Get Stuck in our Heads

Will of Robert Johnston

Wintson Churchill’s ‘Never Give In’ Speech

Witchcraft in Salem

Women’s History Month

World Below the Brine

World War I (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Young Adult Fiction