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Read Works: Bare Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skeletal system and a diagram showing some of the bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mosquitoes Don't Bug These Monkeys
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monkeys in South America that use millipedes as mosquito repellant. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Now That's a Big Bird!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skull of a prehistoric terror bird found in Argentina. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Meet the Emperors
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about emperor penguins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Traveling Turtles
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about the lives of loggerhead sea turtles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Buzz About Honey
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honey and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Fawn in the Forest
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the life of a baby deer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Oh Nuts!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two little squirrels. One collected nuts to prepare for winter, but the other decided to have fun playing instead. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
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Read Works: Reef Building
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wildlife workers who are building artificial reefs to provide food and shelter for sea life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Thawing the Iceman
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how scientists found a frozen mummy in the Alps and thawed it for further study. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Whale Watch!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how different types of whales eat, breathe, breach, and communicate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Smoking Hurts People
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the negative effects of smoking on people and on the environment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Trouble in the Amazon
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the causes and effects of the decreasing rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
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El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background
In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are...
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Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Dinosaurs
A comprehensive overview of dinosaurs. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a...
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Read Write Think: History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension
Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that...
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Read Works: Alex's Discovery
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Alex who meets a man from outer space in need of some help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in understanding plot.
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History for Kids: Science in Ancient Rome
From the development of concrete to state of the art military technology, students will be fascinated by the achievements of ancient Rome when they read history for kids on science in ancient Rome.