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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: 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...
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Read Works: Water on the Earth

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the processes of weathering and erosion, along with their effects. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Focus on Adhd

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains ADHD, its effects, and explanations from students who are living with the condition. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: The Ex Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the importance of physical activity on the body. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: F Is for Fat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about Body Mass Index and childhood obesity. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Cool to Be Kind

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about bullying and suggests some ways to stop bullying. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: A New Neighborhood Farmers Market

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage is about the addition of a farmers' market in New York City. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Water Worries

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the world-wide shortage of clean drinking water and ways to conserve water. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: Explore the Seashore

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives facts about different types of ocean life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief explanatin of the life cycle of the polar bear. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Firefighters Are Helpers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the duties of a firefighter. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: The Difference Between Maps and Globes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares the difference between maps and globes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Flying Machine

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives a brief history of the airplane and ideas that came before the invention. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: A Sweet Sickness

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage traces the first recordings of diabetes to current day treatments for this condition. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: The Harmonica

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the harmonica. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Read Works: Where Does Food Go?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the process of food digestion. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: Explore Our Solar System

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Friends Food Fun at the Zoo

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage about animal keepers is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It...
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Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determing Main Idea and Key Details

For Students 4th Standards
In this learning module, students are given a model passage with an explanation of the main idea and supporting details followed by a practice passage with questions.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
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Read Works: Passages: "Spinning Storms"

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornados written on the 2nd grade reading level. The text is followed by ten comprehension questions in multiple choice or extended response format. A link to answers is...