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Read Works: Dear Mr. President
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses different letters to the President in different historical contexts. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Read Works: Crisis in Africa
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the problems related to poverty, disease, and war in Africa. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition...
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Read Works: Students Get Healthy!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the need for healthier school lunches and the mandates implemented to ensure that healthier options are provided in schools. This passage reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works: The Struggle for Equality
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives biographical information about famous African Americans who have worked hard to fight against inequality. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
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Read Works: Clouds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives basic facts about clouds and their impact on precipitation. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are...
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Read Works: Cool Prize
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the prize-winning photos of Kenneth Libbrecht and classifications of snowflakes. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
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Read Works: News Debate "F" Is for Fat?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses Arkansas' approach to tackling childhood obesity by giving report card grades to schools according to the number of children who have reported obesity. This passage...
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Read Works: Cool to Be Kind
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the importance of empathy. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included. Several questions...
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Read Works: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans the Land of the Four Quarters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the Inca Empire and shares a theory about how the civilization disappeared. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Read Works: City Life and Country Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage compares and contrasts country life to city life. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also included....
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Read Works: Amazing Animal Helpers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shared information about the helpfulness of dolphins, dogs, monkeys, and horses. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Almost Human
[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: Forecasting Severe Weather to Communities Helps Them Prepare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how communities can prepare for weather disasters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: Fossils & Dinosaurs: The Age of Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the time period when dinosaurs were still living on earth and describes the event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
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Read Works: Primary Source Texts About Slavery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage provides two stories about slaves in America with question sets. This passage uses primary source documents to teach reading skills including comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: The British Are Coming!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a historical fiction depiction of a family's perspective of the Revolutionary War. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential...
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Super Teacher Worksheets: Reading Comprehension: Great White Sharks [Pdf]
Read the fifth-grade reading passage entitled "Great White Sharks" by Erin Ryan and answer the comprehension questions over the selection. PDF includes an answer key with explanations.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: After the Chicago Fire [Pdf]
"After the Chicago Fire" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about how Chicago was rebuilt after the great fire. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Animal Studies [Pdf]
"Animal Studies" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about studying the behaviors of animals including the sawfly and the poppy-bee. They learn about animals by observing them. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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Read Works: Found at Last
[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: Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works
[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: Alien Planets
[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: Forms of Art Abstract Art
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction article shares information about abstract art and the insights of the artist Mark Rothko. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Forms of Art African Sculpture
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction text discusses basic information about African sculpture.This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...