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Thoughtful Learning: Minilesson: Asking and Answering the 5 W's and H Questions
Students will learn the "5 W's and H questions" needed to comprehend a news story. Then students will apply these question words [who, what, where, why, when, and how] to real news stories and to events in their own lives.
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Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the fennec fox and how it stays cool in the hot African desert. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Busy Bees
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how bees can be helpful and how they can be dangerous. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: I Am a Robin
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with a robin telling the story of his parents have raised him. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Plants Work
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different parts of a plant: the leaves, stem, roots, and flowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Spiders
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text spiders and how they can be helpful. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Rain Forest Plants Are Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about rain forest plants that can be used to make medicines. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Do Seeds Grow?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text explaining how a seed grows into a plant. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Plants Get Water and Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about a plant's roots and why they are important. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Frogs Have Special Skin
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about frogs and their unique skin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Butterflies and Flowers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about butterflies and how to get more to come to a garden. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Pumpkin Time!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how a seed grows into a pumpkin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sunflowers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about sunflowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Human Body You've Got Some Nerve!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about nerves in the human body. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Scaly or Slimy?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the difference between a reptile and an amphibian. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Human Body Your Vision
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives facts about human vision. 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: Wild Things
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some plants and animals recently discovered in the Himalayas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Amazing Animal Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shared information about the helpfulness of dolphins, dogs, monkeys, and horses. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Good Chimp
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about chimpanzees and their ability to cooperate with each other. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sneaky Sssnakes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about pythons moving into new areas and taking over ecosystems. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Habitats Zoos
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about zoos and the learning experience they provide. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Winter Is Coming
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different ways animals deal with dropping temperatures in the winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Skin the Great Protector
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about skin, the body's largest organ. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Plant Attack
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how ants will sometimes damage plants by digging tunnels through them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.