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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Test Tutor: Sequence

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will increase their reading comprehension skills and understanding of story sequence by reading a passage of text and then answering questions about the order of events.
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Read Works

Read Works: In the Night

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage offers students the opportunity to conclude what type of animal is prowling in the night. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Speaking and Listening in Content Area Learning

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Oral language development facilitates print literacy. In this article, we focus on the ways in which teachers can ensure students' speaking and listening skills are developed. We provide a review of effective classroom routines,...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
What is reading? Explore this article from to find the answer to this question.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Simple Things Principals Can Do to Help All Children Read Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore a list of simple things that principals can do to help all children learn to read. Come and learn more about the collaboration process with school administrators, teachers and staff.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: The Foundations for Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What are the foundations for reading? Come and explore this informative article to discover the answer to this question.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Intervention for Reading: Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A complete list of online resources for interventions to reading instruction.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides information and techniques for teaching phonics and decoding, which assist with early literacy.
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Read Works

Read Works: Making Butter, Long Ago and Today

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, this passage compares how butter was made in the past with how it is made in the present. A questions sheet is available to help...
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Auburn University

Auburn University: How Children Learn to Read Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How do children really learn to read words? This resource offers insight into this complicated but exciting journey of putting sounds and words together to learn the joy of reading. Come and discover more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Callie Learns to Listen

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Callie who learned how important it is to listen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: This Is North America

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, geographical information about North American is provided in this informational text. Questions that assess multiple reading skills...
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Read Works

Read Works: Getting Water From a Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, information about water wells is provided in this informational text. Questions that assess multiple reading skills are provided.
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Read Works

Read Works: Kerry Kangaroo Hops

For Students 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a baby kangaroo named Kerry who is just learning to hop. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Traffic Lights Passage and Question Set

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of informational texts that discuss traffic signs and traffic lights. Photos are available to help young students build skills in reading comprehension in the areas...
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Read Works

Read Works: Spying the Signs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of informational texts that discuss traffic signs and traffic lights. Photos are available to help young students build skills in reading comprehension in the areas...
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Read Works

Read Works: Meet a Baby Panda

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a baby panda and how it grows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: A Class of Twins

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a Mr. Reed's class as they learn that everyone looks different, but everyone also looks alike. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Chicks Grow Up

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about how a little chick grown into a rooster or a hen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Two Kinds of Whales

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text telling similarities and differences between killer whales and blue whales. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Meet a Rattlesnake

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about rattlesnakes and how they make their rattling sound. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Ready for Cold Weather

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about hedgehogs and how they hibernate in the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Who Does He Look Like?

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named LiAnn who learns that babies often look like their family members. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.