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Read Works: Passages: Say Hello to the Giant Gorilla

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a family trip to the zoo and answer questions about comprehension, characterization, main idea, transition, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions...
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Read Works: Passages: Partial Eclipse

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Marcus who watched a partial eclipse through a telescope and answer questions about comprehension, climax, supporting details, characterization,...
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Read Works: Passages: The Noisiest Cat

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a girl and her pet cat and answer questions about comprehension, conflict, supporting details, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions...
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Read Works: Passages: Forgetting the Words

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Andy who has a part in the school play and answer questions about comprehension, conflict, inferencing, main idea, literary devices, and more. Links to a...
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Read Works: Passages: Lessons From Fishing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Morgan who loved to fish and answer questions about comprehension, comparing details, supporting details, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a...
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Read Works: Passages: The Mountain

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about an unexpected love and answer questions about comprehension, setting, vocabulary, transitions, and more. A paired text and questions are also available.
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Read Works: Passages: Sarah the Seagull

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a seagull named Sarah who lived with her mom in New York and answer questions about comprehension, setting, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and...
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Read Works: Passages: How to Trick Your Sister

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a brother who ends up on the wrong side of a trick with his sister and answer questions on comprehension, resolution, text evidence, main idea, and more. Links to a...
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Read Works: Good Bye to Xochimilco

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a fictional passage about growing up near the canals of Xochimilco and spending weekends watching the bumper car-like traffic jams on the canals. It is followed by a comprehension question set.
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Read Works: The Legend of the Goddess Tin Hau, or Mazu

For Students 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction passage focuses on Mazu and her power to guide her brothers to safety from a terrible storm at sea while weaving quietly in her house. Can she save them? A comprehension question set and a...
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Read Works: Passages: Brothers

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between brothers Joseph and Philip and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: Learning to Skateboard

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between a brother and a sister and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: Vanquishing the Gooples

For Teachers 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Melissa and her adventure at a Renaissance Faire and answer questions in comprehension, setting, characterization, main idea, inference, transitions, and more. A...
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Read Works: Passages: The Other Side of the Magic Shop

For Teachers 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Bella who worked at a magic shop and answer questions in comprehension, setting, characterization, main idea, inference, transitions, and more. A link to a...
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Read Works: Passages: A Winter's Drive

For Teachers 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a young man who returns to his childhood home and answer questions on comprehension, text evidence, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Read Works: Passages: The Film Editor

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about the job of a film editor and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, inferencing, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: The Process of Acting

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about what it takes to be an actor and answer questions about comprehension, main idea, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. Links to a paired text and...
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America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Read Works: Lessons: Onomatopoeia

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe onomatopoeia in a literary text using the book Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
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Read Works: Passages: Abraham

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about an elephant who escaped captivity to go back into the wild and answer questions on comprehension, dynamic characterization, textual evidence, main idea, and more....
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Read Works: Passages: The Chicken Pen

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a little boy who I learning to live on a farm and answer questions on comprehension, narration, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Read Works: Passages: "First Day Folly"

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "First Day Folly" focuses on a pre-teen who is nervous about the first day of middle school. It is followed by a comprehension question set and answer key and a vocabulary worksheet for the...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text That Develops Interesting Characters

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to write an literary text with good characterization in four lessons: Introduction, Two Types of Characterization and Two Types of Characters, Choosing Your Characters, and Your Turn.