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Read Works: Abraham

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the life of a wild elephant named Abraham. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: Finding Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Farmer, the Snake, and the Eggs and Bacon

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a story about a farmer who must solve a problem during his quest to prepare breakfast for himself. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: The Grey Sheep [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: A Hero With Heart

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about 13-year-old Ana who went to visit the orphanage in Peru where her American parents adopted her. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: A Museum of Their Own

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Negro League baseball and how it came to be. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: An Upset

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a soccer team that understands having fun is more important than winning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From City to Farm

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about s psychologist who decided to leave his life in the city and become a farmer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Game on by Stephen Fraser

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about stem cell transplants being used to heal injuries and cure disease. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learning on the Soccer Field

For Students 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Gustavo who lives in Brazil and loves to play soccer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Biochar

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about biochar, a Native American soil treatment that may still have environmentally friendly benefits for agriculture today. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: Harry Hits a Homer

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a little boy named Harry who hits his first homerun. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Juan Wants to Build

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a little boy named Juan who wants to build a toy car and asks a friend for help. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Farmers Farm

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the rights of a farmer and of a home-owner who lives near a farm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Circus Comes to Town

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a mayor who has to solve a problem in her town. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Making the Team

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a boy named Andreas who is trying out for the basketball team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: "Casey at the Bat"

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer about a professional baseball player named Casey who had a chance to win the game for his team. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief biography of the baseball player Satchel Paige and his significant accomplishments. A paired passage, a vocabulary support sheet, a questions sheet, and an...
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Read Works: Article a Day Set: Time

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Article-A-Day-Set provides six articles related to "time." Students will learn about the days of the week and months of the year.
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Read Works: Article a Day Set: Time: Parts of a Day

For Students Pre-K - K
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides numerous resources filled with informational articles. "Parts of a Day" provides information about the parts of a day: morning, afternoon, evening, and night. This passage is designed...
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Read Works: Paired Text: A Long Time Ago: What Did People Wear?

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides pair texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource from ReadWorks provides information about the ways people dressed in the 1700s and 1800s.
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Read Works: Singing Time

For Students K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides texts for pre-fluent and fluent readers. This resource is a short poem about joyful mornings.
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Read Works:lesson 2: Humorous Solutions Kindergarten Tell Tales

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that tall tales are stories with funny solutions to a problem and how to learn unknown words.