Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Super Why! Reading Power Bingo!

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive Super Why! game features a BINGO game. Students listen to Super Why! read aloud a word. Then students must click on "the opposite" of the word read aloud. Students continue clicking on the opposite of each word read...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Why Dolphins Make Us Nervous" by Robert Krulwich

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Why I Refuse to Say I "Fight" My Disability

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why I Love a Country That Once Betrayed Me

For Students 9th - 10th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Are Bees Vanishing

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Website
University of South Florida

Educational Technology Clearinghous: Lit2 Go: Why Brother Bear Has No Tail

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents the text of a Brer Bear story, one of Harris's well-know "Uncle Remus" stories. The text can be read online or downloaded in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, the story has downloadable support material which focuses...
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: The German Weimar Republic: Why Did Democracy Fail?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity for students on the development of the Weimar Republic and why democracy failed in the end. Students read about events leading to the Weimar Republic and debate whether or not it was destined to fail. Links to comprehensive...
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Why No Fans Were Allowed at Mlb Game in Baltimore

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the events in Baltimore that led to the decision not to allow any fans into the stadium to attend a Major League Baseball game in May 2015. Includes video.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Does No One Ever Thank Me for the Magna Carta?

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Why Afghanistan's "Underground Girls" Skirt Tradition Live as Boys

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Recycling and Conservation Why Recycle?

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about recycling. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Why Do We Need Rules?

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the importance of rules. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Why Don't We See Stars in the Daytime?

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining why start cannot be seen during the day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind? [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a party. Mom said her son and daughter could each have 5 friends (5 boys and 5 girls). The girl wanted all girls so the party was cancelled. It is followed...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The national literacy initiative, Reading Rockets, provides information and resources on how students learn to read, why so many struggle, and how educators can help.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Super Why!: Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Choose from four interactive games have fun while working on reading skills.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Famous African Americans Oprah Winfrey

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains biographical informationa about the multi-talented Ophrah Winfrey. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Famous African Americans Maya Angelou

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains biographical information about the famous author and civil rights leader and activist named Maya Angelou. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: American Government the Mayflower Compact

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Mayflower Compact, why it was written, and how it paved the way for democracy. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Declaration of Independence and why it was written. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

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.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Digitized Signals Are the Future of the Black Box

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the black boxes on airplanes being replaced with more reliable digital signals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: April Showers

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain, thunderstorms, and rainbows in the spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Whys of Weather Rain

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the causes of rain. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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