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Read Works: Passages: Olaudah Equiano

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read information about and an excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa as well as "African Migration to Colonial America" and answer paired text...
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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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Read Works: Water Woes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece includes information about the world's water shortage. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Passages: The Film Editor

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about the job of a film editor and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, inferencing, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: The Process of Acting

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about what it takes to be an actor and answer questions about comprehension, main idea, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. Links to a paired text and...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Field Trip" by Aditi Sriram

For Students 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Partial Eclipse" and "Field Trip" share the theme of astronomy. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: The Campanile

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about the Campanile bell tower in Berkeley, California and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, main ideas, transitions, and more. Links to a paired...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Whom Does He Look Like?"

For Students 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "My Three Sisters" and "Whom Does He Look Like?" have the common theme of physical similarities between family members. Comprehension question sets are available for each separately...
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Verbal Cues

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to draw a conclusion from a verbal cue.
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Read Works: Lessons: Real and Make Believe

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students classify and categorize based on real and make-believe.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Short Story

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, texts, and materials to teach kindergarten students to use clues in a story to draw and explain a conclusion.
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Read Works: Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students about fairy tales and fantasy details.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Fact

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify and describe facts using the book Animal Touch.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Identifying Facts and Forming Opinions

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students identify facts and form opinions using the book Animal Smell.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Opinion

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to form an opinion using the book Animal Taste.
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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of George Washington

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people who are famous or important.
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Read Works: Lessons: The Story of Ruby Bridges

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people and give information about their lives.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Identifying What Is the Same

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities between two pictures.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Identifying What Is Different

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[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to contrast two objects.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Similarities and Differences in a Text

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify similarities and differences using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williams.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Sorting Into Predetermined Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Creating Groups and Sorting

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into student created categories using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy.
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Read Works: Passages:"new Orleans and the History of Jazz "By Loren Schoenberg

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article "New Orleans and the History of Jazz "by LorenSchoenberg focuses on the beginnings of New Orleans and its history of Jazz. A comprehension question set follows the passage. 11-12.3 Text...