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Read Works

Read Works: The Ecosystem of the Forest

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about forest ecosystems. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"Changing the Ecosystem" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the disruption in the food chain due to habitat loss and pollution and the results of that disruption. It is followed by questions which require students to...
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Read Works

Read Works: All the Pieces Matter

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares a classroom discussion about interpendence of living things, including people, in an ecosystem. This passage discusses This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (8) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "World Without Fish" by Mark Kurlansky. Mark Kurlansky discusses how humans treat the oceans and the fish that live in them, and what the world will likely look like if fish...
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Read Works

Read Works: The Eco Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ecological pyramids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Where Plants and Animals Live

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining habitats where plants and animals live. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
"Prairie Ecology" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem and how it works using three animals: the skipper butterfly, ground squirrel, and the bison It is followed by an open-ended question which requires...