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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.
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Read Works: Cloning Around

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether human cloning should or should not be allowed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Silk Mystery

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists' attempts to make spider silk. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Pumping Up the Heart

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the heart and what can be done when the muscle weakens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Rise Up

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about technology used to help a paraplegic man walk again. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Valley Nuts

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about almonds and where they come from. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Healing Power

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who helped create a vaccination for small pox. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Ice Picks

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a telescope called IceCube that is buried under the ice in Antarctica. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mission to Mars

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a husband and wife who journey together to Mars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: In Our Galaxy, Far, Far, Away

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about earth-like planets in other solar systems. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Nj Physics Professor Has the 'Right Stuff'

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about Dr. Greg Olsen, the third private citizen to travel to outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Electromagnetic Radiation

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about electromagnetic radiation and the effects it creates. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Electric and Magnetic Forces and the Modern Day Compass

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how a compass works using electromagnetic force. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Everyday Compound or Poison?

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how chemicals can be combined to form safe or unsafe compounds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Me and My Shadow

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Stella who had fun playing with her shadow on a sunny day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.