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Read Works: Watch Out for Ticks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ticks. 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: A Star Spangled Song

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Star Spangled Banner. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Tomb Figures: Bactrian Camel and Central Asian Groom

For Teachers 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] ReadWorks provides tomb figures featured at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Bactrian camel and a Central Asian groom are the figures shown, alongside a descriptive article. Paired passages, a...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Two Lesson Unit: Explicit Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...
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Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit: Beginning and End

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This webiste provides a lesson in which students identify and describe the beginning and end of a fiction story. Lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...
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Read Works: Fact and Opinion Kindergarten Unit: Opinion

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using Animal Touch by Kirsten Hall to teach students to form opinions based on information found within informational texts. Includes ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: The United States of America

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what it means to be an American. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several...
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Read Works: What's Up in Space?

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses what is up in outer space. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: American Heroes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Black History resource contains mini-biographical sketches of Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and Marian Anderson. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that...
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Read Works: Welcome Back!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares advice about how to make the first day of school a great one. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Weekend at Sawyer Farm

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passages is about a weekend visit to Sawyer Farm in New York. 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: A School for Heroes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about a school for students who would like to train to be firefighters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: The Winning Shot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's soccer game and a children's running race. Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Read Works: Helping a Friend

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks module contains a pair of literary texts that narrate teamwork-themed stories about a children's running race and a children's soccer game . Pictures, photos, and question sets are...
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Read Works: Abraham

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the life of a wild elephant named Abraham. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: Finding Food

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how obtaining food was challenging in the past. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: The Farmer, the Snake, and the Eggs and Bacon

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a story about a farmer who must solve a problem during his quest to prepare breakfast for himself. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: The Grey Sheep [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This nonfiction narrative entails a young girl describing her family's grey sheep on the farm activities related to raising them. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: A Hero With Heart

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about 13-year-old Ana who went to visit the orphanage in Peru where her American parents adopted her. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: A Museum of Their Own

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Negro League baseball and how it came to be. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: An Upset

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a soccer team that understands having fun is more important than winning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From City to Farm

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about s psychologist who decided to leave his life in the city and become a farmer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.