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Read Works: Finding Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Grey Sheep [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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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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Read Works: A Very Special Place

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction shares the story of a young girl living in an urban setting who had a wonderful imagination. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: All About Koalas

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage is about the topic of koala bears. 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: Amusement Park Motion

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text is an article about the physics topic of "momentum" that occurs at amusement parks. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
Unit Plan
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Read Works: Flying Blind

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic passage isshares the story of a state trooper who responds to an accident during a dangerous storm. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Read Works: Aliens Invade!

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article shares information about the effect of adding certain species into non-native environments. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: American Government Jury Duty

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This first person account explains the topic of jury duty. 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: American Government the Bill of Rights Part Ii

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains a few parts of the Bill of Rights. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Inside Scoop

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passages shares the backstory of a couple who own and work on an ice cream truck. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Grade 3 Reading Test: (2008 Vode Released Items)

For Students 3rd
In this 35-question reading comprehension test, students read numbered passages from a story and answer questions about their reading. This is part of a Virginia State reading test.
Study Guide
IQ Site

Iq Study Activities: Grade 3 Reading Test: (2007 Vode Released Items)

For Students 3rd
In this 35-question reading comprehension test, students read numbered passages from a story and answer questions about their reading. This is part of a Virgina State reading test.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Genre 1st Grade Unit: Identifying Information in Nonfiction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A instructional activity in which students use the books Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat by Joanne Mattern, Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston, and Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Anticipation Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Anticipating is an effective reading strategy for readers of all ages. Utilize this template and graphic organizer to help your students become better readers.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: How Does Writer Organize Nonfiction Text?[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfict Readers Analyze Structure/views[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This,too Find Central Ideas, Details in Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A module to help you practice skills that will help identify the central idea and details while reading literary nonfiction.
Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This, Too Central Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Begin practicing skills that will help identify the central idea and details while reading literary nonfiction.
Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This: A Strategy for Analyzing Literary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read, analyze and answer text-dependent questions about several excerpts from a famous slave narrative called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
Unit Plan
NWT Literacy Council

Nwt Literacy Council: 'Raising Ourselves' by Velma Wallis (Study Guide) [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The book 'Raising Ourselves' by Velma Wallis is a nonfiction look at what it means to grow up as a native person in Alaska. This is a study guide of the book, used for teaching literacy skills to adult learners, particularly aboriginal...
Unit Plan
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Read Works: Passages: Sandra Day O'connor

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text Sandra Day O'Connor and a linked passage about Margaret Thatcher and then complete questions over the paired texts.RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure
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Other

Seeing the World in Print Through Nonfiction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Unit plan containing five lessons designed for tenth graders. They center around reading and writing nonfiction, and they teach skills such as identifying the features of nonfiction and writing expository texts. All are aligned to...