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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: "First Day Folly"

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "First Day Folly" focuses on a pre-teen who is nervous about the first day of middle school. It is followed by a comprehension question set and answer key and a vocabulary worksheet for the...
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Read works.org: Read Aloud Lesson: Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson plan with materials to use with the book Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.
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Read Works: Bridge to Terabithia 5th Grade Unit

For Teachers 5th Standards
A Grade 5 literature study unit for the novel "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson. The concepts covered include cause and effect, character, genre, plot, predicting, and theme.
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Read Works: Lesson 2: First and Last Sentences (Passage)

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students comprehension will be reinforced as they reading first and last sentences of paragraphs. Direct teaching, guided practice, and independent worksheets are available for this third grade lesson.
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Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Where Do Polar Bears Live?

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson is a close reading of "Where Do Polar Bears Live?". After reading the book to the class, students will be able to identify and recall characteristics that allow polar bears to survive in an extremely cold Arctic environment....
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Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Whoever You Are

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this read-aloud activity, students will identify similarities among people around the world in order to determine the theme of the story. Included is a detailed lesson plan, graphic organizer for guided practice, and an independent...
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Readworks: Read Aloud Lesson: Stellaluna

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Compare Stellaluna's experience of living like a bird with her experience of living like a bat. Included in this lesson are a detailed lesson plan, a graphic organizer, and a student worksheet.
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Read Works: Lesson 1: Actions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this resource, students will practice identifying and describing the actions of a character. Teachers will model these skills through the use of text and pictures from the story No, David! by David Shannon. Students will then draw a...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context Kindergarten Unit: Using Sound and Picture Cues

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert to teach young scholars to use picture cues and initial word sounds to identify unknown words. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the...
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Read Works: Food for Energy [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This informational text passage explains how living things get energy from their food. 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: "Lon Po Po" and "A Tricky Monkey"

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will read "Lon Po Po" and "A Tricky Monkey" and answer comprehension questions based on these fictional stories. This unit meets multiple Common Core Reading Standards for 3rd-grade literature.
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Read Works: A Bird Came Down [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th
A poem by Emily Dickinson in which the narrator watches a bird come, eat, and then fly away. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Three Branches of Government

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended for early elementary students, ReadWorks provides an information text about the three branches of government. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Predicting Kindergarten Unit: Picture Clues and Repeated Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle to teach learners predict the outcome of a story by using clues provided in pictures and in repeated texts. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 3rd Grade Unit: Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan in which students learn to use a dictionary to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. Lesson utilizes the book The Life Cycle of a Beetle by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian and...
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Read Works: Comprehension Units

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension units for grades kindergarten through fifth grade are available on this site. Units consist of read aloud questions and paired passages. Multiple Lexiles are shown, along with...
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Read Works: Using Headings to Determine the Main Idea: The Shark: Silent Hunter

For Students 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading comprehension strategies are the focus of this ReadWorks lesson. Students will pay attention to headings, subheadings, and other text features to help them comprehend nonfiction text. Renee Le's...
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Read Works: Endangered Animals at a Glance

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about endangered animals and a zoo that is working to try to help them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Cool in the Hot Desert

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the fennec fox and how it stays cool in the hot African desert. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Bright as the Sun

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about sunflowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Busy Bees

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how bees can be helpful and how they can be dangerous. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.