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Read Works: City Life and Country Life

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that compares living in the city and in the country. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Rally Against Poverty

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes a world-wide social movement called "Make Poverty History," an idea that Nelson Mandela helped promote at an international meeting. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Read Works: Our World

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read facts about seven continents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Osceola's Last Stand

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about sports teams using Native American names. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Super Stats

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a paragraph and a chart about the popularity of different types of Girl Scout cookies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Nothing Left to Lose

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about two boys who escaped from North Korea to live in South Korea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Saving the Animals

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read this passage on helping zoos in war torn Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and then they can answer five questions designed to improve thier skills on drawing conclusiong.
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Read Works: Birth of a Mighty River

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the Amazon River and its origins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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Read Works: Seven Billion and Counting

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the increasing world population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Big Burger Battle

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about three states that all claim to be the home of the burger. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Banding Together

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a girl named Sydney who sold wrist bands to raise money and awareness for diabetes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Money Matters

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about paper money as it cycles through the economy. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: New Lives for Old Buses

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an African country that uses old school buses for public transportation. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: City of Broken Records

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the people of Dubai who wanted their city to be famous for breaking the most world records. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Healing Paws

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a girl who volunteers to train dogs to help people with disabilities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sailing Into History

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean alone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Scientific Method

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the five steps of the scientific method. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Picking Up the Pieces

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes Katrina made in the Gulf Coast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Into the Flames

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text smoke jumpers who jump out of airplanes in order to fight wildfires. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Backpacks to Fight Hunger

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program to provide food to students in need over the weekend when school lunches were not available. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Shearing Shrek

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Shrek, a wild sheep that provided sixty pounds of wool with one shearing. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Are Zoos Bad News?

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not animals should be kept in zoos. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Never Too Late

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about adults who believe it is never too late to learn to read. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A New Letter for the Alphabet

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the history of the schwa sound. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...