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Read Works: Passages: How to Trick Your Sister

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a brother who ends up on the wrong side of a trick with his sister and answer questions on comprehension, resolution, text evidence, main idea, and more. Links to a...
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Read Works: Passages: Brothers

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between brothers Joseph and Philip and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: Learning to Skateboard

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about the relationship between a brother and a sister and answer questions on comprehension, main idea, text evidence, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: A Winter's Drive

For Teachers 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a young man who returns to his childhood home and answer questions on comprehension, text evidence, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Read Works: Passages: The Film Editor

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about the job of a film editor and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, inferencing, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: The Process of Acting

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about what it takes to be an actor and answer questions about comprehension, main idea, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. Links to a paired text and...
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Read Works: Passages: The Campanile

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about the Campanile bell tower in Berkeley, California and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, main ideas, transitions, and more. Links to a paired...
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Read Works: Passages: Abraham

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about an elephant who escaped captivity to go back into the wild and answer questions on comprehension, dynamic characterization, textual evidence, main idea, and more....
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Read Works: Passages: The Chicken Pen

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a literary text about a little boy who I learning to live on a farm and answer questions on comprehension, narration, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "A Day on the Slopes" by Jaclyn Einis

For Students 2nd - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] These two passages "Amra and the Skateboard" and "A Day on the Slopes" share the common theme of trying new things. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Read Works: Passages: The Mountain

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about an unexpected love and answer questions about comprehension, setting, vocabulary, transitions, and more. A paired text and questions are also available.
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Read Works: Passages: A New Letter for the Alphabet

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about a man who is trying to add a letter to the alphabet and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. A paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: Vanquishing the Gooples

For Teachers 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Melissa and her adventure at a Renaissance Faire and answer questions in comprehension, setting, characterization, main idea, inference, transitions, and more. A...
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Read Works: Passages: The Other Side of the Magic Shop

For Teachers 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Bella who worked at a magic shop and answer questions in comprehension, setting, characterization, main idea, inference, transitions, and more. A link to a...
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Read Works: Passages: "The Bill of Rights"

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read "The Bill of Rights" and "The Preamble to the United States Constitution" and answer questions on the paired texts.
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Read Works: Passages: Olaudah Equiano

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read information about and an excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa as well as "African Migration to Colonial America" and answer paired text...
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Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "Luisa Builds a Model"

For Students K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] These paired texts "Kareem's Playdate" and "Luisa Builds a Model" both have representations of physical space. A reading comprehension question set for each separately, a set for the two together, and...
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Read Works: Passages: An Elephant's Excellent Trunk

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about elephants and answers questions about reading comprehension, supporting details, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions are...
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Read Works: Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes" discusses how they study volcanoes to learn how they work. It is part of Paired Texts: "Volcanoes: Magma...
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Read Works: Passages: "Dancing Ganesha"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "Dancing Ganesha" from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focuses on a sculpture of Ganesha, a beloved Hindu god who is believed to bring good fortune and success in all daily activities. A...
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Read Works: Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 5-page PDF is the nonfiction article "Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan" by Elizabeth Edwards Spalding which discusses Truman's policy to provide aid to Turkey...
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Read Works: Passages: Grade 2: A Brush With History

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a non-fiction article about the history of a toothbrush and answer questions in comprehension, sequencing, inferences, main idea, transitions, and more. A link to paired text questions is...
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Read Works: Program Notes Rhapsody in Blue

For Students 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is the Program Notes from The New York Philharmonic's production of "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. It provides information about Gershwin and his writing of the "jazz concerto." It is...
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Read Works: Senator Joseph Mc Carthy's Speech Before the Senate on June 14, 1951

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This PDF is an excerpt from Senator Joseph McCarthy's Speech before the Senate on June 14, 1951. It is part of Paired Texts (above the passage) with "Anti - Communism in the 1950s" by Wendy...