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Read Works: What's Inside

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the brain and its basic parts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cicadas: No Ordinary Bugs

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cicadas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Menacing Meningitis

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about meningitis, how it is treated, and how to prevent it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Calling All Spiders!

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of spiders found in North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Chicken and the Egg

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Kit who got a baby chick and watched it grow up and hatch chicks of its own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Arms Race

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text male animals that have evolved in order to fight for a mate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Energy Control

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the thyroid and what it does to control metabolism. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Blue Bloods of the Sea

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about horseshoe crabs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Plant Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the ingredients necessary for plant growth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Sensing the World Around Us

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the five senses. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Your Skin Unmasked

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about skin, the body's largest organ. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Final Push

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the effort to eradicate polio, an effort supported by Bill Gates. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Broken Hearts

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about heart defects and cardiac arrest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Honey to the Bee

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honeybees. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Buzz Off

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists genetically engineering a mosquito that will not carry a disease called dengue fever. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Driven to Distraction

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the dangers of texting while driving. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cloning Around

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether human cloning should or should not be allowed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Silk Mystery

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists' attempts to make spider silk. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Pumping Up the Heart

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the heart and what can be done when the muscle weakens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Rise Up

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about technology used to help a paraplegic man walk again. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Valley Nuts

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about almonds and where they come from. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Healing Power

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who helped create a vaccination for small pox. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From One to Many

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about reproduction. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Bones on the Go!

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.