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Read Works: Boys' Choir of Harlem

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the Boys Choir of Harlem. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Native American

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Native American daily life. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Massive Monument: The Crazy Horse Memorial

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a sculpture in memory of Crazy Horse. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Kid Ambassadors

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about two ten-year-old boys who learn to be ambassadors through the People to People Student Ambassador Program. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension...
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Read Works: Meerkat Lessons

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about an African mammal called a meerkat. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: The Chimps Champ

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Jane Goodall, scientist, researcher, and environmentalist. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Protecting the Platypus

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about protesters who are trying to protect the habitat of the platypus in Australia. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Kwan's Crusade

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Michelle Kwan becoming a public diplomat for the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Big Dreams

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a disabled man from Ghana who became a triathlete. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Deep Sea Search

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Amelia Earhart and the search after her disappearance. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: In the Enemy's Grip

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a prisoner of war and his escape from Vietnam. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Star Power

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about celebrities who support different causes. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Aunt Melba

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a crazy relative, a clairvoyant aunt named Melba. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Princess Lily

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a princess named Lily who does not the act way her parents think a princess should act. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Hide and Seek

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl named Tracy who played hide and seek with the cousins she was babysitting. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Friendly Faces

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about friendly community members including: a police officer, a doctor, a firefighter, a teacher, and a construction worker. A question sheet is available to help students build reading...
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Read Works: Pitcher Perfect

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Katie Brownell, a female Little League pitcher who threw a perfect game. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Fiction Factor: The Importance of Setting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting article concerning the importance of setting to any piece of fiction. Gives good information about how setting affects characters and "world-building."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 7: A Christmas Carol

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders learn that writers use stories and distinctive characters to teach us lessons. Students will explore how the choices of characters affect the plot and build the theme of a story. Students will come to understand that...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 3: Because of Winn Dixie

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders learn about the value of companionship, the joy of finding friends in unexpected places, and the significance of building a community of different perspectives. They explore how authors develop the reader's understanding of...
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Read Works: Jake and Alice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about genetic traits, what they determine, and how they mutate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Fairytale Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will have a chance to show their understanding of their favorite fairy tales by building homes for the characters.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Hooray for Heroes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find out what characteristics define a hero when you check out this resource. This site provides activities and lesson plans.
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Yesterday's Classics: Baldwin Project: More Jataka Tales: Table of Contents

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Links to twenty-one different fables from the book More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Written in the Jataka tradition from India, these tales are interesting and teach life and character-building lessons to readers. An illustrated...

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