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Read Works: Firefighters Are Helpers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the duties of a firefighter. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about the fennec fox that lives in the African desert. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: Good Night

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that hibernate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Going Places

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that migrate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Flying Machine

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief history of the airplane and ideas that came before the invention. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: The First Americans

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informatioanl text passage includes information about the first Americans, Native Americans. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: The Liberty Bell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text shares information about the Liberty Bell. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: A Sticky Idea

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the history of Band-Aids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Read Works: Watch Out for Ticks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ticks. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works: A Star Spangled Song

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Star Spangled Banner. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Tomb Figures: Bactrian Camel and Central Asian Groom

For Teachers 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides tomb figures featured at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Bactrian camel and a Central Asian groom are the figures shown, alongside a descriptive article. Paired passages, a...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
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Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a instructional activity in which learners identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Opinion

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall to teach students to form opinions based on information found within informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: The United States of America

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what it means to be an American. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: What's Up in Space?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what is up in outer space. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: American Heroes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Black History resource contains mini-biographical sketches of Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that...
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Read Works: Welcome Back!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Weekend at Sawyer Farm

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passages is about a weekend visit to Sawyer Farm in New York. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: A School for Heroes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a school for students who would like to train to be firefighters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: The Winning Shot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's soccer game and a children's running race. Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...