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Read Works: Got Tissues?

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about allergies and what causes them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Trip to the Beach

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional story shares a description of a child's first trip to the ocean. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Snow Science!

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how snow forms and about different types of snowflakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Get Up and Go! Breakfast Boost

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast every morning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Animal Instinct

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that are able to sense a disaster before it happens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the show entitled Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade? and its debut in 2007. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Dear Mr. President

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the water cycle and children who have written letters to the President. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Dear Mr. President

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses different letters to the President in different historical contexts. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Read Works: Can the Amazon Be Saved?

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Amazon rain forest and efforts being made to preserve it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Crisis in Africa

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the problems related to poverty, disease, and war in Africa. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Read Works: That Tickles!

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about what causes things to tickle and why people cannot tickle themselves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Pizza Problems

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the problem with reading programs that reward students with unhealthy food. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Growing Up in Darfur: Sudanese Children Struggle to Survive

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a girl named Sumaya and her life in a refugee camp in Darfur. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Instrumental Talent

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a young lady named Ruby Jane Smith who can play eleven different musical instruments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Native American

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about historical Native American daily life including: clothing, beliefs, food, shelter, and goods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains concepts related to a healthy diet. 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: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how to stay healthy and physically fit through diet and exercise. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading...
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Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the information about how to stay healthy for life. This passage is intended as a guided passage to instruct students how to classify and categorize information.
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Read Works: Creepy Cave Crawlers

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about twenty-seven new species of insects found in caves in central California. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Presidents Come Alive

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wax statues of President George Washington and President Abraham Lincoln. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Dinosaur Discovery

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text dinosaur fossils found on an island in Germany. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: School: How Has It Changed?

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes that have taken place in school buildings, tools and rules. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Remote Control Classroom

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about students who take tests using remote control instead of pencil and paper. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.