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Read Works: In the Night Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This literary text passage shares a first person account of a cat and its night on the prowl. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
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Read Works: Star Power
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the philanthopic acts of music group and movie stars. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...
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Read Works: Ride of the Century
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the New York's subway system history. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: An Owl Is a Bird
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage provides facts about owls. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions and a...
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Read Works: The Holocaust
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains what the Holocaust was and its impact on people throughout the world. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: How to Draw a Map Passage & Question Set
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains how to draw a map. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
[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: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans: The Mayans
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the Mayan civilizations. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
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Read Works: Fit for Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the information about how to stay healthy for life. This passage is intended as a guided passage to instruct students how to classify and categorize information.
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Author's Purpose
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to identify author's purpose including to entertain, to inform, and to persuade. Lessons are based on the books The Adventures of Taxi Dog by...
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Corwin Press: Chapter 7: Informational Text Lessons in First Grade
This chapter provides guided informational text lessons for first graders. Differentiation and management tips are provided, along with steps to use while implementing these lessons.
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Common Lit: "Who Is Katherine Johnson?" by Nasa
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: "Diary of a Teenage Refugee" by Amira
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Common Lit: "The Terror" by Junot Diaz
A learning module that begins with the nonfiction story "The Terror" by Junot Diaz, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
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Common Lit: "Little Things Are Big" by Jesus Colon
A learning module that begins with "Little Things Are Big" by Jesus Colon, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
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Common Lit: "Auschwitz" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A learning module that begins with "Auschwitz" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Common Lit: "A Cobra in the Garden" by Mahani Zubaidy Gunnell
A learning module that begins with "A Cobra in the Garden" by Mahani Zubaidy Gunnell, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: "Life of a Slave on a Southern Plantation" by Bird Brain History
A learning module that begins with "Life of a Slave on A Southern Plantation" by BirdBrain History, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Common Lit: "Going to School as a Refugee" by Caroline Garrison
A learning module that begins with "Going to School As a Refugee" by Caroline Garrison accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: "Healing 'Brick City'": A Newark Doctor Returns Home by Npr Staff
A learning module that begins with "Healing 'Brick City': A Newark Doctor Returns Home" by NPR Staff accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Common Lit: "A Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished by Black Men" by Karen G. Bates
A learning module that begins with "A Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished by Black Men" by Karen Grigsby Bates, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Common Lit: "Marian's Revolution" by Sudipta Bardhan Quallen
A learning module that begins with the "Marian's Revolution" by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
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Common Lit: "Hello, My Name Is " by Jason Kim
A learning module that begins with "Hello, My Name Is ___" by Jason Kim accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
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Common Lit: Cobra Kite
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...