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Read Works: Picking Up the Pieces
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the changes Katrina made in the Gulf Coast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Stopping the Spread
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists working on a vaccine against malaria. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Life Cycle of a Frog
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps in a frog's life cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Buzz About Honey
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honey and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Return of the Bear
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the increasing population of the endangered grizzly bear. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Old Time Operations
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about ancient dentistry and surgeries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Colorful Crayons
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text giving facts about crayons and how they are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in sequencing.
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Read Works: Colorful Crayons: Inside a Crayon Factory
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how crayons are made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: To the Moon!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about NASA's plans of building a base on the moon and reaching towards Mars. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Children in the Shadows
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Jewish child living in hiding in Nazi occupied Belgium. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Welcome Aboard!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares biographical information about Christopher Columbus and his landing on San Salvador. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Magellan Was First
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to sail around the world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Viking Voyages
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archaeologists who studied a Viking burial site. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sums of Consecutive Integers
Practice finding the nth number in a sequence of consecutive numbers based on the sum. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Happened Next?
In this lesson, 5th graders will read informational text articles. Then students place sentences from the articles into chronological order.
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Analysis of the C Major Invention (Bwv 772) by Bach
This site is an analysis of this well known Bach invention. Online sound clips enhance the diagrams and text. The site is also available in Spanish.
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Math Portal: Arithmetic Progressions
A mini-lesson on arithmetic progressions includes a definition, examples with solutions, and a set of interactive problems at the completion of each lesson.
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Read Works: Sequence Kindergarten Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...
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Read Works: Sequence 1st Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons are...
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Read Works: Sequence 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...
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Read Works: Sequence 2nd Grade Unit: Flashback Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The lesson includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and utilizes the book...
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Annenberg Learner: Sequence
Listen to an explanation about the series of events in Cinderella. Then look at some pictures where the story's events are all mixed up and put them in the correct order.
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Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on sequencing where students use book Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson to identify flashbacks and the text "Leaving Home" to arrange details into chronological order for a...