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Read Works: Famous African Americans Muhammad Ali: The Greatest

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Biographical information about the famous boxer Muhammad Ali is contained in this passage. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This biographical passage shares information about the famous African American named Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans Frederick Douglass

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains biographical information about the famous African American abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: The First Thanksgiving

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the first Thanksgiving. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans Malcolm X

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Biographical information is contained in this passage regarding the African American activist, Malcom X. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans Sojourner Truth

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares biographical content about the abolitionist named Sojourner Truth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: An American Leader

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage includes a brief biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Alex's Discovery

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This science fiction passage shares what can happen when an alien arrives at a child's lemonade stand. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Fixing My Sister's Bike

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic passage is about a girl who uses problem solving strategies to fix her sister's bike. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: The Disappearing Room

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a short mystery. 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: Amra and the Skateboard

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction passage addresses a plot of a girl who wants to try skateboarding like her male peers were doing. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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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...
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Read Works: A Rally Against Poverty

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes a world-wide social movement called "Make Poverty History," an idea that Nelson Mandela helped promote at an international meeting. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Read Works: African American Leaders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Mini-biographical information is shared about the following African American leaders in this passage: Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and Condoleeza Rice. This passage is a...
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Read Works: Fit for Life

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage explains concepts related to a healthy diet. 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: African Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about lions, elephants, giraffes, and warthogs. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Extreme Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares extreme animal facts. 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: The Cutest Animal Finalists

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the information about animals that students have voted as being "the cutest" in a Weekly Reader contest. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: Flu Frenzy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses influenza and the importance of preventing an epidemic of a flu outbreak. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: A New Home

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about the topic of immigration. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Hiking Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of three characters who prepared and then went on a hiking trip. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Coral Reef Goes Digital

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about 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: The High Dive

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the story of a girl who gets the courage to go off of the high dive. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: All About Ants

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the roles of different types of ants. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...