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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: City Mouse a Fable [Pdf]
"City Mouse: A Fable" is a one- page fable about a city mouse and a country mouse. The city mouse visits the country mouse where food is limited. The country mouse visits the city where the food is great, but there is constant danger. It...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
In this lesson plan, young scholars will consider Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Live Binders: Acre:snorkeling to Deep Sea Diving: Breaking Beyond Surface Reading
This unit from North Carolina Public Schools focuses on Common Core Standards for Reading including close reading strategies, questions teachers should ask themselves, and reading activities.
Channel 4 Learning
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Click a room, then the poetry book and find a thorough study of Shelley's famous poem, "Ozymandias," including an audio file, synopsis, games for close reading and more.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Repeated Readings [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn about reading repeatedly, an effective instructional strategy. Teachers will learn how to implement repeated readings, understand how to measure progress with repeated readings, and find research that...
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: Movies and Filmography
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the history of movies and filmography. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click 'Check my answers.' If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Depend on the Text! How to Create Text Dependent Questions
This strategy guide focuses on writing text-dependent questions which require the student to reread the text to support their answers. It offers a list of what to do to create these questions that progress from establishing general...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My New Brother [Pdf]
"My New Brother" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about child whose mother has just had new baby boy. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes:...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Frederick Douglass [Pdf]
"Frederick Douglass on Women's Suffrage," a one page, non-fiction, reading passage, is an excerpt from a persuasive speech delivered by Frederick Douglass to the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C., April 1888 in support...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Critical Reading Towards Critical Writing
Aimed particularly towards writing about non-fiction, this site describes ways to think about what you read so you can write more clearly. Focuses on analyzing the "ways of thinking" that an author uses so you can evaluate the validity...
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Read Works: A Trip to Taughannock
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF fiction passage entitled "A Trip to Taughannock" followed by 10 reading comprehension questions. Click on double arrow on the top right to download, print, or make full screen....
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Read Works: Take Me Out to the Ballgame
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF fiction passage entitled "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" followed by a 10 comprehension questions. It also provides a StepRead passage, a shorter version of the story. Click on the...
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Read Works: Accidental Butterfly
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is six-page PDF fiction passage entitled "Accidental Butterfly" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to answers for the questions if also provided. Click on double arrows to download,...
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Read Works: Unlocking the Inner Engineer
[Free Registration/Login Required] This five-page PDF is a fiction passage entitled "Unlocking the Inner Engineer" followed by 10 reading comprehension questions. A link to an answer key is provided. Click the double arrows on the top...
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Read Works: Einstein in Time
[Free Registration/Login Required] This four-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Einstein in Time" features a timeline of Einstein's life. It is part of Paired Texts: "Everyday Einstein - Lasers" and "It's All Relative" (See link above...
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Read Works: The Family Business
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF fiction passage entitled "The Family Business" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to the answer sheet is provided. Click on the double arrows at top right to...
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Read Works: A Day at Angkor Wat
[Free Registration/Login Required] This five-page PDF fiction passage "A Day at Angkor Wat" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to the answer key is provided. Click on double arrows on top right to download, print, or view...
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Readworks: Refueling
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a six-page PDF fiction passage entitled "Refueling" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to the answer key is provided. Click on double arrows on top right to download, print, or view...
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Read Works: Searching for Survivors
[Free Registration/Login Required] This five-page PDF fiction passage "Searching for Survivors" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to the answer key is provided. This passage is part 3 of the "Run" series; part 2 is entitled...
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Read Works: The Columbia
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a seven-page PDF fiction passage "The Columbia" followed by 10 comprehension questions. A link to the answer key is provided. Click on double arrows on top right to download, print, or view...
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Read Works: "America From Washington to Madison" by James Folta
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a seven-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "America from Washington to Madison" by James Folta which focuses on Americas first four Presidents: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. It is...
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Read Works: "Singing Time" by Rose Fyleman
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is the poem "Singing Time" by Rose Fyleman followed by a set of reading comprehension questions using picture cues.
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Read Works: Be Careful With Medicines
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension passage focuses on children learning to be safe with medicine and vocabulary words. It is followed by questions about the passage that include picture cues.
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Read Works: Passages: "Spinning Storms"
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornados written on the 2nd grade reading level. The text is followed by ten comprehension questions in multiple choice or extended response format. A link to answers is...