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Read Works: How Trees Help

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about trees and the way they help people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Earthworms Do Good Work

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about earthworms and how they help the soil. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Secrets of the Rain Forest

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the rain forest and the important things that come from it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Tiger Tale

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tigers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Life in the Ocean

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different depth levels of the ocean and the types of animals that live in each. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Who Loves the Sun? Iguanas!

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about iguanas and where they live. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Saving the Rain Forests

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about protecting the rainforest and the animals that live there. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Dead Zone

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the "dead zone," an area in the Guld of Mexico where no fish can live due to pollution from fertilizer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Starting Over

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about rebuilding after a disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: When Lightning Strikes

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read lightning: what causes it, when it is seen, and how to stay safe during a lightning storm. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
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Read Works: We Need Water

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the water cycle and the importance of water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Hard Rocks

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about hunting for gem stones including diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and more. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Can the Amazon Be Saved?

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the disappearing Amazon rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works: Ready to Rumble

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about three different types of volcanoes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Read Works: Drilling for Alaska

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about drilling for oil in Alaska. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Ryan's Well

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about 15-year-old Ryan Hreljac who created a foundation that has raised over $1.5 million to build wells in Africa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing...
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Read Works: Fleeing Goma

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares the devastating effects from a volcanic eruption in the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential...
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Read Works: Quake in Indonesia

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a series of earthquakes on the island of Sumatra in 2007. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Catch the Breeze

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about windmills using wind power as a source of electricity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: News Shorts Tomb Raiders

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archaeologists who found a burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: News Shorts: Tomb Raiders

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about American archaeologists who discovered an Egyptian tomb. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Eruption!

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about the eruption of the Colima Volcano in Mexico. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.