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Read Works: Getting Water From a Well

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how to get water from a well. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Getting Water From a Well

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Intended to support early elementary students' reading comprehension, information about water wells is provided in this informational text. Questions that assess multiple reading skills are provided.
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Read Works: Native American Settlements

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different types of homes lived in by Native Americans throughout America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Native American Homes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how Native Americans arrived in North America and where they lived when they settled. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
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Read Works: Native Americans

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about various Native American tribes who have lived throughout North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Play Time

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the importance of play for many different types of animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Special Delivery

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the birth of okapis in captivity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Ecosystem of the Forest

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about forest ecosystems. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works: Group Behavior

For Teachers 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about group behavior and mankind's social needs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Growth Factor

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about ways to project heighth in students. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: In the Pink

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about flamingos and their unique qualities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Heart Sick

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about gorillas in captivity who are dying from a disease that affects their hearts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: High Jumpers

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text tree kangaroos and current efforts to protect them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Muscle Power

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about attempts to create a vaccination for he AIDS virus. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Eco Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares nonfiction information about ecological pyramids. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Read Works: Gentle Giants

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about whale sharks and scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Selective Breeding

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about selective breeding and its role in evolution. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Descendants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the roles of paleoanthropologists and how they determine whether the remains of a prehistoric species is a direct ancestor or not. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
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Read Works: Inheritance of Traits

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about learned and inherited traits. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: It Would Be Hard to Smile at a Smilodon

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Smilodon, also known as the Sabre-toothed tiger. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Jake and Alice

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about genetic traits, what they determine, and how they mutate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Worldwide Loss of Bees a Growing Concern

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing number of bees and the negative effects that can have on our food supply. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: My Three Sisters

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text in which a little girl named Tasha tells about her family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...