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Read Works: A Trip to the Beach

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional story shares a description of a child's first trip to the ocean. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Snow Science!

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how snow forms and about different types of snowflakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Bad Robot

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about a high school girl who has spent months building a robot at the expense of losing time with her friends. She finally takes the robot to school where he tears a locker door...
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Read Works: A Polar Bear Grows Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about polar bears growing into adult bears.
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Read Works: The Big Push

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Common Core reading passage is a story of two children pushing each other down a hill on a sled. It is followed by comprehension questions.
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Read Works: A Big Star

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about the sun including what it is and what it does for the earth. It if followed by reading comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.
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Read Works: A Bit About Buttons

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is all about buttons including where they came from. uses for buttons, and fun facts about buttons. It is followed by comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.
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Read Works: Once Upon a Time

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Hans Christian Anderson who is also called the father of fairytales. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Vanishing Vultures

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the decreasing number of vultures in India and the problems it creates. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: When Lightning Strikes

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read lightning: what causes it, when it is seen, and how to stay safe during a lightning storm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: When Lightning Strikes

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about lightning and how to stay safe when it strikes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Heat Is On

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage gives information about global warming and its threat to the polar bears in the Arctic. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: The Ivory Billed Woodpecker Returns

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that was once perceived to be extinct due to excessive logging. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
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Read Works: Hot Topics

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how the human body gets energy from food. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Get Up and Go

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the importance of eating a good breakfast. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Get Up and Go! Breakfast Boost

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of eating a healthy breakfast every morning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Goodbye to Lice

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction, informational text passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains...
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Read Works: Animal Instinct

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about animals that seem to instinctively know when a natural disaster is about to happen. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Animal Instinct

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that are able to sense a disaster before it happens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Turn It Off

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the effects of watching too much television and the challenge of TV-Turnoff Week. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the television game show "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the show entitled Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grade? and its debut in 2007. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: China Under Attack

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a personal experience during the Japanese attach on China. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.