Read Works
Read Works: What Is the Solar System?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the solar system. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet: Cyprus
This Lonely Planet site offers a down-to-earth summary of the culture of Cyprus. Read about ancient relics, religion, and food.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Composition of the Solar System
Students will use a reading selection to compare the solar system to a neighborhood and do some writing, drawing and make comparisons to reinforce their knowledge about the rocky planets, gas giants and amount of matter in the solar system.
Read Works
Read Works: Loopy Loops
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Saturn's rings. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet: Suriname
A brief summary of cultural practices in Suriname. Read about ethnicity, language, religion, arts, and food. Also includes background information, an image gallery, and map.
Exploring Nature
Exploring Nature Educational Resource: Rainforests of the World
Read about different rainforests around the planet. Find out geographical information, as well as typical plants and animals living there.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Read About Pioneers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a lot of information to read and learn about the ways of the Pioneers. It also gives opportunity to learn new vocabulary.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading in the Content Area
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates the reading skill of compare and contrast while learning about the solar system.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Nasa Confirms Presence of Liquid Water on Mars
Read about the fascinating discovery of liquid water on Mars. Includes video.
Read Works
Read Works: Take Care of Our Planet
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about solving the problem of landfills. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: The Cold Planet
Listening to a cute story about an imaginary planet helps with English comprehension and the additional activities encourage reading and writing skills.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Science Monster: Earth
Read about the vital statistics, composition, and other facts about our home planet, Earth.
Read Works
Read Works: Explore Our Solar System
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: A Final Journey
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about improvements made to the Hubble telescope. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Cool Math
Coolmath: Science Monster: Our Moon
Read about our planet's only satellite, better known as the moon in this colorful, illustrated tutorial.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Cosmic Cookies
Roll your mouse over the planets in our solar system to read a vignette about each. Then, link to the recipe for directions to create miniature planet cookies that look like the real thing.
NASA
Nasa: Solar System Exploration
Enter our solar system to interact with the planets, moons, asteroids, meteors, and more. Investigate with NASA scientists and explore missions related to space exploration. Read facts, compare statistics, look through resources, and...
BBC
Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Earth, Sun, and Moon
Help Sarah Jane and her team put the solar system's planets back in order. Following the activity, read more about the sun, the Earth, and its moon, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Newly Discovered 'Goldilocks' Planet Has Potential for Life
Probably one of the coolest things to imagine is life on another planet! What would it look like? What could it possibly be? Scientists have discovered a planet much like Earth. "I would say that the chances for life on this planet are...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Mississippi River
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the Mississippi River and how to read Maps.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to use with the story, Flight, by Robert Burleigh, in the Scott Foresman Reading Series for third grade. Students will preview and predict what the story will be about. The...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: All About Fish
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is fun flipchart that contains facts about fish, a poem, an online story and game about fish. It also reviews contractions and has a word search puzzle.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Top 5 Amazing Space Discoveries
Read about some of the most important space discoveries in recent times.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: I See Ice Viewer
Explore the solar system like never before with this photograph viewer. Choose the planet, then scroll through the many beautiful photographs taken by space missions. Read about how each photo shows evidence of the presence of ice.