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Read Works: A Baby Polar Bear Grows Up
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a baby polar bear as he grows and learns to be on his own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Stormy Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about hurricanes and how they form. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Volcanoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the parts of a volcano and how it erupts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Keeping Bears Out
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about why bears wander into camp sites and how to keep them out. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: My Whiskers
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with a cat telling about how he uses his whiskers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Groundhogs Are Diggers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about groundhogs and the burrows they live in. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: How to See Sound
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text showing how to see sound waves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Day at the Pumpkin Farm
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister who visit a pumpkin farm with their parents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Peoples Education: Make Inferences in Science [Pdf]
This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...
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Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
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Read Works: Frogs Have Special Skin
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about frogs and their unique skin. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: An Owl Is a Bird
[Free Registration/Login Required] An information text about owls and how their eyes, feathers, heads, claws, and beaks help them become better hunters. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: From Calf to Camel
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about camels and their baby calves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Learning About Your World
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the five senses help people learn about their world. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Light
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about natural and man-made things that give off light. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Abcteach: Birds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Come and check out this resource featuring printable materials on birds. This site includes poems, shape books, questions for reading comprehension and more.
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El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background
In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are...
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Abcteach: Earth Day Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] How can you treat the earth with more respect? Check out this resource featuring links to elementary activities to celebrate Earth Day. You will find word searches, crossword puzzles, reading...
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Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Pure Gold
Students will learn about golden eagles through reading and viewing an episode of Plum Landing. Then students will illustrate what they have learned about the golden eagle's environment.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Science in Ancient Rome
From the development of concrete to state of the art military technology, students will be fascinated by the achievements of ancient Rome when they read history for kids on science in ancient Rome.
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Pbs Learning Media: Peacock
This Nature video segment features the beautiful bird known for its iridescent tail, the peacock.
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Alex: The Grouchy Ladybug
The students will thoughtfully listen to a story read aloud and comprehend the sequence of events. This lesson will culminate units completed in science and math and will incorporate literature, science, and math.
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Pollution
A short discussion of several different types of pollution and of the harm that it can do to the Earth. Includes a two-question reading-comprehension quiz.
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Abcteach: Insects
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the insect world using activities and lesson plans that emphasize cross-curricular learning.