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Read Works: Excerpt From Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail

For Teachers 5th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This primary source features a letter excerpt from Dr. Martin King, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies. Scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Luisa Builds a Model"

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Troy's Treat"

For Students 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "A Trip to the Store" and "Troy's Treat" have purchashing food in common. Question sets are available for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Wishing Tree" by Kyria Abrahams

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The two passages "A Lion in the Bedroom" and "The Wishing Tree" both have fantastical elements. Question sets are available for each passage separately on one combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Trouble at Reading Railroad" by w.m. Akers

For Students 2nd - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] The two passages "Apple the Cat Calls a Meeting to Order" and "Trouble at Reading Railroad" share the theme of problems and their consequences. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Chirping Chirp"

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passages "Clara and Philip the Turtle" and "Chirping Chirp" share the common theme of caring for injured animals. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and one combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "A Day on the Slopes" by Jaclyn Einis

For Students 2nd - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] These two passages "Amra and the Skateboard" and "A Day on the Slopes" share the common theme of trying new things. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Nighttime in Texas"

For Students 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Flying Blind" and "Nighttime in Texas" are both suspenseful. Question sets are provided for each separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Finding Salinger"

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Taken by Surprise" and "Finding Salinger" share the common theme of change. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Back Roads" by Vinnie Rotondaro

For Students 7th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "A Winter's Drive" and "Back Roads" share the common themes of road trips. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Learning to Skate" by w.m. Akers

For Students 6th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Brown Onions" and "Learning to Skate" share the theme of father-daughter relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Jumping Bodies"

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Magic in the Classroom" and "Jumping Bodies" share the theme of magic. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "The Treasure Map"

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This paired text focuses on the theme of Discovery; it includes two reading passages, "Jack's Lost Kite" and "The Treasure Map," comprehension questions for each passage, and a combined set of questions...
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Read Works: Amy's Halloween Secret

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF fiction passage entitled "Amy's Halloween Secret" 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: If Rocks Could Talk!: Obsidian

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF passage "If Rocks Could Talk!: Obsidian" from the American Museum of Natural History features an interview with an igneous rock named Obsidian. It is part of a paired text with "If Rocks Could...
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Read Works: Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes" discusses how they study volcanoes to learn how they work. It is part of Paired Texts: "Volcanoes: Magma...
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Read Works: Nefertari's Tomb by Alizah Salario

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This five-page PDF nonfiction passage "Nefertari's Tomb" by Alizah Salario discusses how the tombs of the Ancient Egyptians provide information about their culture. It is followed by 10 comprehension...
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Read Works: Face to Fossil

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This seven-page PDF passage entitled "Face to Fossil" features an interview with ProtoAndy, a fossil of Protoceratops. It is part of a Paired Text with two other texts (see links above passage):...
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Read Works: Program Notes Rhapsody in Blue

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is the Program Notes from The New York Philharmonic's production of "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. It provides information about Gershwin and his writing of the "jazz concerto." It is...
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Read Works: The Tang and Song Dynasties in China

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a five-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "The Tang and Song Dynasties in China" which focuses on Chinese history including the Tang and Song Dynasties. It is followed by 10 comprehension...
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Read Works: Notes on the Program: Cuban Overture

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is the Program Notes from The New York Philharmonic's production of "Cuban Overture" by George Gershwin. It provides information about Gershwin and his writing of the "Cuban Overture." It is...
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Read Works: Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 5-page PDF is the nonfiction article "Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan" by Elizabeth Edwards Spalding which discusses Truman's policy to provide aid to Turkey...
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Read Works: Senator Joseph Mc Carthy's Speech Before the Senate on June 14, 1951

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is an excerpt from Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech before the Senate on June 14, 1951. It is part of Paired Texts (above the passage) with "Anti - Communism in the 1950s" by Wendy...
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Read Works: The Life Line

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This five-page PDF includes a picture of the painting "The Life Line" by Winslow Homer and text that discusses it. It is followed by 10 comprehension questions. Click double arrows to download, print,...