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Read Works: The Painter's Studio
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a painter who dreams of painting a masterpiece and learns a valuable lesson. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learning to Skate
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl named Linda who faces her fears and learns to ice skate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Lonely
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about a girl Jessica who feels very lonely at school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Macy the Elephant
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a story about an elephant named Macy who lives in the jungle with her parents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Temporary Employment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a young man and his experience working for a difficult boss. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Best Dancer
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about little girl whose attempt to ruin a classmate's audition backfired. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Cells That Make Us
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy who skins his knee and then learns all about cells and how they work to form living things. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Meadowlands
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl who learns to see both the disgusting and the beautiful parts of wetlands. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Magic of Mime
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about a young woman named Becky who acts as a mime. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Saving Anna's Family
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a girl with cancer and the financial an emotional strain it puts on her family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Teaching English in Thailand
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text a young woman named Michelle who went to Thailand for four months to teach English in a school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Siblings
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister whose relationship starts to change as they grow older. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: See if I Care
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a newspaper editor who is tricked into following a false lead. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Baths
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about one girl's experience in a Hungarian bath house in Budapest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Roots of Southern Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Southern food and how it has evolved throughout time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Ss Normandie
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the luxurious cruise ship the SS Normandie and its disastrous end . A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Seraphic Melody
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an autobiographical account of the narrator's discovery of a type of music he never knew existed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Standing on the Roof of Africa
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Natalie Ingle and her climb to Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Elements of Jewelry
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about various metals and techniques used to make jewelry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Astronaut Wives Club
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the inspiration behind the book The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Grace's Painful Pattern Repeated; See It?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It can be used as both a read-aloud exercise...
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Read Works: Spit for Silk
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about silkworms and how silk is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Jefferson, Church and State
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a about the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom that was written by Thomas Jefferson to ensure a separation of church and state. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: Cat Treat Stops Mosquitoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage explains how catnip is used to keep mosquitos away from biting. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary acquisition are also...