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Read Works: Out of Line Online

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the problems with posting too much information online. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the human brain. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works: Leaping Lemurs!

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a new species of Lemur discovered on Madagascar. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's Inside

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the brain and its basic parts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cicadas: No Ordinary Bugs

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cicadas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Menacing Meningitis

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about meningitis, how it is treated, and how to prevent it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: America's Bird Soars

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage is about the bald eagle and the efforts to preserve their survival. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: Marine Biology

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Frank who grew up loving the ocean and has dreams of becoming a marine biologist. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Calling All Spiders!

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of spiders found in North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Chicken and the Egg

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Kit who got a baby chick and watched it grow up and hatch chicks of its own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Arms Race

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text male animals that have evolved in order to fight for a mate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Energy Control

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the thyroid and what it does to control metabolism. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Blue Bloods of the Sea

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about horseshoe crabs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Plant Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the ingredients necessary for plant growth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Follow That Koala!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes travels of the author with a team of scientists on St. Bees Island in Australia, where they track koalas to find outmore about the animals and theirenvironment. This...
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Read Works: Sensing the World Around Us

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the five senses. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Your Skin Unmasked

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about skin, the body's largest organ. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Final Push

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the effort to eradicate polio, an effort supported by Bill Gates. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Broken Hearts

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about heart defects and cardiac arrest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Honey to the Bee

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honeybees. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Loud Concert

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. 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: Don't Waste Water

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about not wasting water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Buzz Off

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists genetically engineering a mosquito that will not carry a disease called dengue fever. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Driven to Distraction

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the dangers of texting while driving. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.