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Read Works: The Painter's Studio

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a painter who dreams of painting a masterpiece and learns a valuable lesson. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learning to Skate

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Linda who faces her fears and learns to ice skate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Lonely

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl Jessica who feels very lonely at school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Macy the Elephant

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about an elephant named Macy who lives in the jungle with her parents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Temporary Employment

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a young man and his experience working for a difficult boss. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Best Dancer

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about little girl whose attempt to ruin a classmate's audition backfired. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Cells That Make Us

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy who skins his knee and then learns all about cells and how they work to form living things. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Meadowlands

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl who learns to see both the disgusting and the beautiful parts of wetlands. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Magic of Mime

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about a young woman named Becky who acts as a mime. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Saving Anna's Family

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl with cancer and the financial an emotional strain it puts on her family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Teaching English in Thailand

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text a young woman named Michelle who went to Thailand for four months to teach English in a school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Siblings

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister whose relationship starts to change as they grow older. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: See if I Care

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a newspaper editor who is tricked into following a false lead. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Baths

For Students 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about one girl's experience in a Hungarian bath house in Budapest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Roots of Southern Food

For Students 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Southern food and how it has evolved throughout time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Ss Normandie

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the luxurious cruise ship the SS Normandie and its disastrous end . A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Seraphic Melody

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an autobiographical account of the narrator's discovery of a type of music he never knew existed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Standing on the Roof of Africa

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Natalie Ingle and her climb to Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Elements of Jewelry

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about various metals and techniques used to make jewelry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Astronaut Wives Club

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the inspiration behind the book The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Grace's Painful Pattern Repeated; See It?

For Students 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It can be used as both a read-aloud exercise...
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Read Works: Jefferson, Church and State

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a about the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom that was written by Thomas Jefferson to ensure a separation of church and state. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: Cat Treat Stops Mosquitoes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage explains how catnip is used to keep mosquitos away from biting. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...
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Read Works: Columbus Was an Explorer

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short nonfiction book passage is about Christopher Columbus and his contributions to exploration. This book in the SummerReads series, intended to work against the summer reading slide, reinforces...