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Read Works
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4th - 6th
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English Language Arts
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Activity

Read Works: Food for Thought

Curated by ACT

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the implementation of healthy lunches at schools. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and can be used as both a read-aloud exercise and an individual practice tool.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

fact and opinion, food, lunch

Additional Tags

5th grade reading, healthy foods, readworks.org, lexile level: 920l, readworks, informational text

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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Common Core

RI.4.10 RI.5.10 RI.6.10 RF.4.4.c RF.5.4.c RL.6.10 SL.5.1.a

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