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Read Works: Fatty Foods

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the effects of fattening foods. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Flu Frenzy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses influenza and the importance of preventing an epidemic of a flu outbreak. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: Couch Potato Central

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about childhood obesity. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: Practice Makes Pain

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the damage being done to the bodies of teens in highly competitive sports. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Big Burger Battle

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about three states that all claim to be the home of the burger. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Spooky Spiders

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about spiders and how helpful they can be. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Dive Into a Coral Reef

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about coral reefs and some of the sea creatures that call them home. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Real Life Bat Man

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage describes the responsibilities of a chiroptologist, a person who studies bats for a living. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and...
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Read Works: A Liger's Tale

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a liger, a cross between a tiger and a lion. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: King of the Slowpokes

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Tyrannosaurus rex and why scientists think it was not able to run very quickly. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mosquitoes Don't Bug These Monkeys

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about monkeys in South America that use millipedes as mosquito repellant. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cloned Canine

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the first scientists to successfully clone a dog. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Up to Speed

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the science behind roller coasters, including Kingda Ka, one of the tallest and fastest roller coasters in the world. A question sheet is available to help students build...
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Read Works: Return of the Cube

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Rubik's Cube. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: To the Moon and Back

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about NASA's plans to send humans to the moon by 2020. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Juicy Problem

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a fourth grade class that worked to get the orange named as Florida's official state fruit. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A New Home

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage shares information about the topic of immigration. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language: Reading Test 3

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A ten-question quiz on recognizing similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification. Results can be printed, saved, or emailed.
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Read Works: Figurative Language

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site contains a collection of passage that include figurative language lessons. Each lesson includes questions to assess student understanding.
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 06: Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom

For Teachers 1st
This lesson plan will have students arranging patterns with counters. Students will copy the pattern introduced in Stuart Murphy's Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom. Then students will create their own patterns with counters. Pupils will...
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Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about similes and metaphors through this multimedia presentation. First view a slide show describing different types of metaphors as well as a simile. Then watch a video [3:13] showing similes and metaphors used in popular songs. A...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Figurative Language

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A activity in which students use the book Once in a Blue Moon by Nicola Morgan to learn to identify and interpret the meaning of figurative language in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching,...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Personification

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners will use the book The Runaway Tortilla by Eric A. Kimmel to learn to identify and understand the use of personification in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and...
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Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Idioms

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students use the book More Parts by Tedd Arnold to learn to identify and understand the use of idiom in a fiction text. Lesson includes direct teaching, guided practice, and independent...