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Read Works: The Growth Factor

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: The Eco Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ecological pyramids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: Explore the Seashore

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage gives facts about different types of ocean life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Explore Space

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Watch Out for Ticks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ticks. 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: Ancient Egypt Making Mummies

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the mummification process that was used in ancient Egypt. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Debate: Better Late Than Never?

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how some states are apologizing for their roles in slavery during the past. Reading comprehension questions are provided as supplements to the passage..
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Read Works: Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom

For Teachers 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief biography of the abolitionist writer and speaker, Frederick Douglass. A paired passage, a vocabulary support sheet, a questions sheet, and an answers sheets are...
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Read Works: Casey Saves the Play

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a character who is able to particiapate . This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension...
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Read Works: Caught in a Lie

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage shares the story of a girl who was caught in a lie. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow

For Teachers 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief biography of the baseball player Satchel Paige and his significant accomplishments. A paired passage, a vocabulary support sheet, a questions sheet, and an...
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Read Works: The Great Escape

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction story shares the story of a girl who is taking care of animals and makes a mistake. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: An Adventure in Africa

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fictional first person account shares the story of a child whose fears are overcome while experiencing a safari in Africa. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: Freaky Frogs

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The author describes the production of see-through frogs by scientists in Japan, and this transparent skin allows to see and learn about the frog's organs more easily. This passage is a stand-alone...
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Read Works: Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the human brain. 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: A Loud Concert

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. 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: Alien Planets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the discovery of previously unknown planets in the solar system. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: Alexander Graham Bell

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a biography of Alexander Graham Bell. 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: Always Remember

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and how this tragendy is memorialized today. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: Famous African Americans Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This biographical sketch contains information about the Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Found at Last

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction text tells the story of Sabi, a military bomb-sniffing dog that was lost in Afghanistan and found over a year later. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Read Works: Ancient Egypt the Legend of the Pharaoh's Curse

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage idiscusses the legend of the curse of King Tut's tomb and the true events surrounding the attempts to move this tomb. The text is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: Ancient Egypt Queen of the Nile

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains biographical information about the Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: An Urgent Message

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This narrative nonfiction pieces shares how the Pony Express began. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...