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Read Works: Mount Pinatubo and the Ring of Fire

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Mt. Pinatubo and what caused it to erupt. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Forecasting Severe Weather to Communities Helps Them Prepare

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how communities can prepare for weather disasters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: Wow, Water!

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Clouds

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives basic facts about clouds and their impact on precipitation. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
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Read Works: Save Your Paper, Help Earth

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how recycling paper can help Earth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Walt's Class Watches the Weather

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about students who make a weather chart in class. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: It's Raining, It's Pouring!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text the different types of weather in March. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mountains and Oceans: Mount Everest

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Mount Everest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mountains and Oceans: The Rocky Mountains

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Rocky Mountains. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Fossils & Dinosaurs: The Age of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the time period when dinosaurs were still living on earth and describes the event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
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Read Works: Watching the Weather

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage talks about weather indications of global warming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Fossils & Dinosaurs the Extinction of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage provides some explanations of what may have caused the dinosaurs to become extinct.This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: Mountains and Oceans: The Earth's Oceans

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the oceans of the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Let It Snow!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about snowflakes and a scientist who photographs and studies them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Storm Chasers

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a scientist who chases storms to study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Earth Science Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about tropical storms and hurricanes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Cool Prize

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The photographing of snowflakes is the topic of this informational text passage. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Cool Prize

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the prize-winning photos of Kenneth Libbrecht and classifications of snowflakes. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
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Read Works: Sunrise, Sunset, or Not?

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about what causes the sunrise and sunset. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Ever Changing Sky

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares observable aspects of the sun and the moon. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: First Life

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the pressure-bomb experiments of Robert Hazen and the origins of life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: A Hole in the Planet!

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It can be used as both a read-aloud exercise...
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Read Works: Cracking Up

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares information about crevices in the earth and earthquakes.This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Water From the Air: Cloud Forests

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this informational text passage, facts about cloud forests are shared, along with persuasive language to stress the importance of them and threats to them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...