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Read Works: Getting a Car

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a family decision to purchase a car. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: News Debate Battle of the Binge

For Teachers 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text arguing for and against competitive eating contests. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Flying High

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the risks and rewards of extreme action sports. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Shark Tale

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about Bethany Hamilton, a surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Game On!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientific studies on children playing multiple sports. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How Extreme Should Sports Be?

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text arguing the merits of extreme sports. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Will Human Life on Earth Come to an End?

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about science fiction authors and their predictions about space travel. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Could the Futuristic Traveling Tube Become a Reality?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passages shares facts about a futuristic traveling tube called the Hyperloop. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Solving New York City's Hurricane Problem With Representations

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about working together to prepare for a natural disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Using Cellphones and Computers to Transmit Information

For Teachers 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about changes in communication after computers and cell phones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Great Ideas!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some good ideas that became inventions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Inventions That Changed Our World

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about several different inventions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Space Junk

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about junk flying around in outer space. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Ideas That Pop

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about an invention made by a 10-year-old girl from Texas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Li Bing and the Flooding

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a man who worked to keep the Min River from flooding. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Almost Human

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the topic of robots. 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: Wired World

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the growing number of people online. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: When the Empire State Building Was New

For Teachers 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the early history of the Empire State Building in New York City. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: The Industrial Revolution: Making Cloth

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passages shares facts about the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Vikings & European Explorers Shipbuilding and Warfare

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Viking ships and warfare. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Always Remember

For Teachers 4th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the events of September 11th and the memorials established to commemorate this horrifying day in history. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension...
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Read Works: Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Gettysburg

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Battle of Gettysburg and President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Ice Harvest

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how ice was harvested and used before refrigerators. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The First Americans

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, the importance of Native Americans is discussed in this informational text. Visual cues are provided to support the passage and...