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Read Works: Caught in a Lie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a girl who was caught in a lie. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: The British Are Coming!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a historical fiction depiction of a family's perspective of the Revolutionary War. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential...
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Read Works: Walking Tall

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares the story of Ruby Bridges' rol. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Questions and a...
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Read Works: The Struggle for Equality

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives biographical information about famous African Americans who have worked hard to fight against inequality. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
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Read Works: Cool to Be Kind

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the importance of empathy. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: Native American Homes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how Native Americans arrived in North America and where they lived when they settled. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans the Land of the Four Quarters

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the Inca Empire and shares a theory about how the civilization disappeared. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
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Read Works: Genre 4th Grade Unit: Strategies for Identifying Genres

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use books from the classroom library to learn strategies that can be utilized to determine the genre of a book and to understand how knowing the genre before...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: What Is Antarctica?

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Yeshi's Luck by Naomi C. Rose

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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Common Lit: A Jelly Fish

For Students 3rd - 4th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
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Common Lit: Walking for My Life

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Dancing Towards Dreams

For Students 3rd - 5th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: A Cave That Talked

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Baseball's Girl Umpire

For Students 3rd - 4th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: A Princess Who Can Tune an Engine

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Everella's Want

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Why the Sky Is Far Away

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: "Act Your Age" by Colleen Archer

For Students 3rd - 5th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Athena and the Dandelions

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Walnuts and Watermelons

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Aly's Discovery

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: Dragonfly

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, article, or poem is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...

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