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Read Works: The American Chestnut

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the American chestnut tree and the work scientists are doing to save it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Canadian Beaver

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text Canadian beavers in Tadoussac, Quebec. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Play Time

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of play for many different types of animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Special Delivery

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the birth of okapis in captivity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Group Behavior

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about group behavior and mankind's social needs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Growth Factor

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: What's Bugging Everyone?

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about bedbugs and how difficult they are to exterminate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: In the Pink

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about flamingos and their unique qualities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Heart Sick

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about gorillas in captivity who are dying from a disease that affects their hearts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: High Jumpers

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Muscle Power

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about attempts to create a vaccination for he AIDS virus. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mother Cats and Their Kittens

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about mother cats and how they raise their young. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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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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Read Works: When Fish First Walked

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural selection and its role in the theory of evolution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Gentle Giants

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about whale sharks and scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Selective Breeding

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about selective breeding and its role in evolution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Descendants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the roles of paleoanthropologists and how they determine whether the remains of a prehistoric species is a direct ancestor or not. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Read Works: Cutting Edge

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An biographical text about a cancer-fighting surgeon named Peter Costantino. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Inheritance of Traits

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about learned and inherited traits. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Comeback

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a conservation project designed to bring Atlantic puffins back to the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Discoveries: Mighty Mouse Bred

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists who bred a mouse with increased endurance. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: It Would Be Hard to Smile at a Smilodon

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[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Smilodon, also known as the Sabre-toothed tiger. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Jake and Alice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about genetic traits, what they determine, and how they mutate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Orchid's Secret

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about orchids and why they are so rare and valuable. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.