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Read Works: A Distant Relative

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a humanoid skull discovered in 2001. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Famous Scientists & Mathematicians Louis Pasteur

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains a short biography of Louis Pasteur and his development of pasteurization, a process that led to the development of vaccinations and safety procedures for many foods.This passage is...
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Read Works: Meet the Microbes

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of microbes including: viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Animal Ears

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four animals that have very different types of ears. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Do Animals Have Feelings?

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether or not animals feel various emotions. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Out of Line Online

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the problems with posting too much information online. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the human brain. 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: Leaping Lemurs!

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a new species of Lemur discovered on Madagascar. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's Inside

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the brain and its basic parts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Cicadas: No Ordinary Bugs

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about cicadas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Menacing Meningitis

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about meningitis, how it is treated, and how to prevent it. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: America's Bird Soars

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage is about the bald eagle and the efforts to preserve their survival. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works: Marine Biology

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Frank who grew up loving the ocean and has dreams of becoming a marine biologist. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Calling All Spiders!

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about different types of spiders found in North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Chicken and the Egg

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Kit who got a baby chick and watched it grow up and hatch chicks of its own. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Arms Race

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text male animals that have evolved in order to fight for a mate. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Energy Control

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the thyroid and what it does to control metabolism. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Blue Bloods of the Sea

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about horseshoe crabs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Plant Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage discusses the ingredients necessary for plant growth. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Read Works: Follow That Koala!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes travels of the author with a team of scientists on St. Bees Island in Australia, where they track koalas to find outmore about the animals and theirenvironment. This...
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Read Works: Follow That Koala!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses how and why koala bears are tracked by scientists. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: Sensing the World Around Us

For Teachers 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the five senses. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Your Skin Unmasked

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about skin, the body's largest organ. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Final Push

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the effort to eradicate polio, an effort supported by Bill Gates. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...