- 03/29/23
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Text Set: You & Your Brain - The Limbic Brain
This culturally relevant text set focuses on building student understanding of the limbic system in the brain and how it’s connec…
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- 06/14/22
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World War II Text Set
This grades 6-8 culturally relevant text set is about World War II and the impacts on varied experiences by identity groups, both civil…
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- 12/17/20
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Multimodal STEM Text Sets
A multimodal STEM text set is a coherent sequence of texts and materials pertaining to a specific STEM topic or line of inquiry that su…
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- 04/15/20
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Weekly Reading Practice Routine
The activities in this weekly reading routine are designed to support growth in all three areas of reading fluency (accuracy, rate, and…
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- 02/19/20
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Increasing Reading Fluency for Middle and High School St…
This seven-step protocol outlines how to perform small group interventions for middle school and high school students reading below gra…
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- 05/12/17
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African Savanna
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 09/21/16
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Inventors
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resourc…
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- 09/21/16
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Alexander the Great
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 09/21/16
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States of Matter
Each expert pack: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resour…
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- 09/21/16
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Breathing Deep
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 10/28/15
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Citizenship and Government in Athens
Includes: 2 secondary source texts on ancient Athens Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt for wr…
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- 10/19/15
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Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad
Includes: Secondary source text on ancient Greek civilization Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt fo…
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- 08/15/15
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Spies of the Revolutionary War
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resourc…
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- 08/15/15
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Real Zombies in Real Life
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 08/15/15
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Salem Witch Trials
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 08/15/15
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Wild Weather
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 08/15/15
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Desert Animals
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 08/13/15
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Immigration and Citizenship
Each text set: Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…
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- 03/20/15
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Concepts of Magic in Medieval Europe
Includes: Secondary source text on Medieval European history Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt for…
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- 01/21/15
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Zlata's Diary
Zlata's Diary chronicles the daily life of Zlata, an eleven year-old girl during wartime in Sarajevo, and the war's increasing impact o…
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- 01/21/15
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Water
In “Water”, Helen Keller describes her first experiences with her new teacher. Keller finally grasps the idea that a …
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- 10/29/14
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Becky and the Wheels and Brake Boys
The short story titled “Becky and the Wheel-and-Brake Boys” is about how Becky desperately wants to own a bike despite the …
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- 10/29/14
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Stray
Mr. and Mrs. Lacey and their daughter, Doris, are stranded at home following a severe winter storm. Doris notices an abandoned pu…
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- 10/29/14
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The Tail
Tasha, a thirteen year old girl has to babysit her little 7 year old brother, Junior, because her mom is getting a job over the summer.…
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- 10/29/14
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The Case of the Monkeys that Fell from the Trees
This article describes scientists Ken and Molly Glander’s research on the eating habits of howler monkeys in Costa Rica. In…
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- 10/29/14
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My Papa Mark Twain
In My Papa, Mark Twain, Suzy Clemens, at thirteen years old, wrote a biography of her famous father, author Mark Twain. Through d…
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- 10/29/14
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Drive-In Movies
In the Drive-In Movies, young Gary Soto wants his mother to take him and his siblings to the drive-in movies, a special treat. Hi…
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- 10/28/14
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Crow Call
An absentee father takes his daughter on a hunting trip. The experience leads them to discover that that they are not strangers after a…
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- 09/27/14
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Ta-Na-E-Ka
Mary Whitebird is about to turn eleven and take part in the Sioux coming of age tradition of Ta-Na-E-Ka. Literally translated as, &ldqu…
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- 09/27/14
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A Backwoods Boy
Lincoln’s life was filled with many relationships, events, challenges and decisions that shaped him from boy to politician. Abrah…
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- 09/27/14
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The Dog of Pompeii
"The Dog of Pompeii" centers on a blind boy, Tito, and his dog, Bimbo, his life-long devoted companion during A.D. 79 in the city of Po…
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- 09/27/14
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Nadia the Willful
A young Bedouin girl has earned the nickname Nadia the Willful because of her quick temper. Her brother, Hamed, is the only one who can…
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- 09/22/14
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The Great Wall
This expository text selection outlines the efforts of the Chinese people to build the Great Wall to protect them from the Mongol invad…
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- 09/22/14
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The Girl Who Married the Moon
Two female cousins spend their life doing everything together. One night they realize they are both in love with the Moon and wish to m…
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- 09/22/14
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The Lost Temple of the Aztecs
The Lost City of the Aztecs is about the demise of the Aztec Empire and how Montezuma, the last Aztec emperor, reacted to the arrival o…
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- 09/22/14
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The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
The selection is about Ghana, an ancient culture that was one of Africa’s great trading empires in the third century A.D. G…
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- 09/22/14
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The View from Saturday
Nadia’s parents were recently divorced and Nadia is spending the summer with her father in Florida, where Grandpa Izzy lives. Gra…
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- 09/22/14
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
To become a member of the ship’s crew, Charlotte Doyle must pass a test of climbing to the top of the mast. She faces physi…
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- 09/22/14
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Franklin R. Chang-Diaz
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz is an immigrant from Costa Rica who began thinking about space at age seven when the Soviet Union launched the f…
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- 09/22/14
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The Challenge
In this short story, Jose learns a valuable lesson about himself when he tries to impress Estella by challenging her to a game of racqu…
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- 09/22/14
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The Adventures of Sojourner
The Adventurers of Sojourner presents a third-person narrative account of the Mars Pathfinder mission, which included the deployment of…
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- 09/22/14
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Out There
Although Danny is a young adult of only 17, he is fully capable of taking his father’s boat out to sea to fish. While out on a so…
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- 09/22/14
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Last Summer with Maizon
One definition of a protagonist is a character that goes through change. And part of the definition is that the antagonist is the…
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- 09/22/14
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Hatchet
In this excerpt, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson overcomes the initial hurdles of survival in the Canadian wilderness. As he ward…
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- 09/22/14
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A Kind of Grace
In Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s autobiography, she writes of the challenges she faced early on while becoming a track and field athlete…
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- 09/22/14
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Dinosaur Ghosts - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This story is about a…
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- 09/22/14
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Chuck Close Up Close
Chuck Close is an American artist who overcomes many obstacles in his life, both unexpected and self-induced. He overcame his fir…
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- 09/22/14
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Beneath Blue Waters
Beneath Blue Waters comes from the trade book with the same title. It focuses on the layers of the ocean. This selection ta…
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- 09/22/14
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Amelia Earhart: First Lady of Flight - Includes Sample W…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In 1937, pilot Amelia…
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- 09/22/14
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Climb or Die
In this story, after their car crashes in a blizzard and their parents are injured, Danielle and Jake must climb to a weather station n…
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- 09/13/14
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All Summer in a Day
“All Summer in A Day” takes place on the planet Venus in a future world where people have come to set up a civilization. &n…
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- 09/13/14
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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
This poem, written in a voice of a child, addresses the fears a child faces when starting at a new school and/or being placed in a new …
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- 09/13/14
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Overdoing It
When the land surveyor, Gleb Smirnov, arrives in the Gnilushka train station, he hires a peasant to take him to the estate that he must…
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- 09/13/14
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The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll’s poem tells the tale of a walrus and a carpenter who invite a group of oysters to join them for a walk on a sunny …
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- 09/13/14
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John Henry
John Henry competes against a steam drill in driving steel and proudly claims that he would sooner die than let a steam drill beat him.…
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- 09/13/14
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The Bracelet
Ruri, a young Japanese girl, and her family are taken to an internment camp during WWII because the US government was afraid Japanese A…
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- 09/13/14
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The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln
In this chapter from Russell Freedman’s photobiography, the author details Abraham Lincoln’s many facets. Lincoln’s g…
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- 07/16/14
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Teaching American History with Primary Sources
Primary sources, secondary sources, and lesson materials from the National Humanities Center (NHC) to teach American History through hi…
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- 07/07/14
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Social Studies Passages and Questions from ReadWorks
Collection of social studies texts and text-dependent questions. Organized by grade (K-8) and lexile.
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- 12/04/13
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Fluency Packet for the 6 - 8 Grade Band
Forty-one passages to help students build fluency over the course of the school year.
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- 09/27/13
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Water is Life: The Earth’s Hydrosphere and Its Impact on…
This module consists of three units. In Unit 1, students build background knowledge about the central role that water plays in all life…
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- 09/15/13
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Colorin Colorado
The Colorin Colorado website provides resources for educators, administrators and families of English Language Learners (ELLs). It incl…
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- 09/11/13
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Common Core-Aligned Materials from EngageNY
Free units plans, lesson plans, Core-aligned texts, and student materials for teaching evidence-based claims. Available for grades 6-12…
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- 09/05/13
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"The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy (with mini-assessment) ©
Four-to-five day series of sample lessons includes: Text dependent questions Printable copies of the text Student discussion…
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- 08/23/13
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"The Making of a Scientist" by Richard Feynman
Two-to-three day series of sample lessons includes: Text-dependent questions Student discussion activities Vocabulary and sy…
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- 08/23/13
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Science Passages and Questions from ReadWorks
Collection of science texts and text-dependent questions. Organized by grade (K-6) and topic.
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- 08/23/13
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Fluency Chart
Quick reference chart helps teachers identify readers who need fluency support, set goals, and track progress.
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- 08/22/13
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The First Emperor
This is an excerpt from "Tomb Robbers." Ch’in Shih Huang Ti was the first emperor of China. He had a great fear of his own death.…
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- 08/22/13
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The Emperor's New Clothes ©
The emperor loves new clothes, so two swindlers claim they can make beautiful clothes that are invisible to anyone stupid or unfit for …
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- 08/22/13
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs
This story, set in 1820s Austria, is a series of letters written between a young boy, Christoph, who lives in Vienna and his uncle, a m…
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- 08/22/13
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Zlateh the Goat
During the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Reuven is forced to sell Zlateh, the family goat, because business has been bad. On his way to t…
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- 08/22/13
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Summer of Fire
In the summer of 1988, fires raged out of control in Yellowstone National Park. Though it seemed like total devastation to outsiders, t…
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- 08/22/13
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The Circuit
Panchito, a young migrant worker, lives life with his family on the circuit—a cycle of seasonal crop harvesting. Each move on the…
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- 08/22/13
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Lob's Girl
In the short story "Lob’s Girl," a girl, Sandy, and her dog, Lob, create an emotional bond that provides the will to survive. The…
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- 08/22/13
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Letters From a Concentration Camp
WWII has started and Jimbo Kurasaki and his mother and brother have been confined to an internment camp because they are Japanese. He i…
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- 08/22/13
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Jackie Robinson: Justice At Last
“Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last” is the story of two brave men who changed the course of history in sports. In the 1940s,…
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- 07/29/13
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Names/Nombres
Julia Alvarez recalls her family’s early years as Dominican immigrants in America, and describes her reactions to the mispronunci…
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- 07/29/13
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Eleven
Rachel wakes up on her eleventh birthday feeling as if she’s still ten—and nine, and eight, and all the ages that came befo…
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- 04/03/13
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Elements of Success For All With The CCSS: Grades 6-12
Outlines the key areas in which to support struggling readers. By educators David and Meredith Liben.