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Antarctic Ice
The story explains the life of animals that live in Antarctica. The author describes life for the animals as they wait for summer…
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Spiders and Their Webs
The informational text includes text features, such as photographs and captions, to give an overview of information about spiders and t…
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John Muir and Stickeen
In the beginning of the story, John Muir doesn’t want to be bothered by a dog and is irritated that Stickeen is even with him muc…
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Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time
This nonfiction narrative is about the Grand Canyon, its many landforms, and the animals that live there. It explores how the Col…
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Klondike Kate
At a time when it was unusual for women to travel alone to Alaska, Kate Ryan leaves her home in Canada and travels to the Alaskan front…
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Dragons and Dinosaurs
Since ancient times, people have used bones and fossils to imagine what animals that lived in the past were like. When scientists and p…
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Lon Po Po
This is the Chinese version of Little Red Riding Hood. In the story, the mother leaves 3 children home alone as she goes to visit…
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The Cricket in Times Square - Includes Sample Writing Ta…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Chester Cricket meets…
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Voyage Across the Solar System
This selection is written as a Readers’ Theater where the students read the script aloud. The script is written as a fictional tr…
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It Takes Talent
When the student’s teacher announces that the school will be holding a talent show, the students are all very excited, with the e…
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The School News
This text is a reader’s theater with seven parts set in the television studio of a school’s morning news network. The story…
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The Case of the Three Bears Breakfast
Sam and Cam own a detective agency. They are contacted by the Bear family, who is upset because their banana pancakes have been eaten a…
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- 09/11/14
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Rope Burn
Richard moves to a new town and has to make new friends and face the challenge of climbing the rope in gym class. He makes a friend in …
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- 09/06/13
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Schools Around The World
This informational, nonfiction selection describes how schools are different in various parts of the world and includes “amazing …
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The Day Eddie Met the Author
The students at Riverside Elementary School are excited about a visit from a real author. The class has been reading books by the autho…
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Aero and Officer Mike - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This nonfiction story…
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Ruby The Copycat - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Ruby wants to fit in …
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A Pen Pal for Max
This realistic fiction story is about a young boy, Max, who is growing up on a large fruit farm in Chile and how he wants to find a fri…
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The Babe and I
This historical fiction story takes place in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression in New York City. Baseball was king and Babe Rut…
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Ellen Ochoa, Astronaut - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This is a biography o…
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One Small Place in a Tree
This expository nonfiction text is about how an oak tree may become vulnerable to disease from its bark being damaged by a bear clawing…
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How Animals Talk
“How Animals Talk” is an informational, nonfiction selection describing how various animals communicate or send messages. A…
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Half Chicken
The folktale “Half-Chicken” is about a chicken hatched with only half a body, one leg, one wing, one eye, and only half as …
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We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente grew up in Puerto Rico where he discovered a love and passion for baseball, and became a famous Hall of Fame baseball …
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Summer of Fire
This article describes the out-of-control fires that took place during the summer of 1988. It focuses on the unpredictable fires of the…
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Sees Behind Trees - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In the beginning, Wal…
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Seeing Earth From Space
The ability to see Earth from space helps scientists to understand both how the planet works and how human activities are affecting the…
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When Washington Crossed the Delaware
This nonfiction narrative is an account of two battles of the Revolutionary War, Trenton and Princeton. American soldiers faced many di…
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Mighty Jackie the Strikeout Queen - Includes Sample Writ…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. For as long as she co…
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Dear Mrs. Parks
Mrs. Parks gives advice to students on a variety of issues by answering some of the letters she has received over her lifetime. She emb…
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The Daring Nellie Bly
In the story, Nellie Bly wants to break the fictional record of Jules Verne’s character, Phileas Fogg, who traveled around the wo…
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Oceans
This excerpt describes how oceans work: the relationship between the phases of the moon and tides, and the dangers of deadly tidal wave…
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Chang and the Bamboo Flute - Includes Sample Writing Tas…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. After a storm damages…
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Folk Tales From Asia
These tales, from Vietnam, Thailand, and China, all demonstrate how it takes the strengths of many to accomplish goals and make a diffe…
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Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain
In 1934, 12-year-old Kai travels alone by steamship from China to Gold Mountain (United States) to live with his father. When Kai arriv…
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Mimicry and Camouflage
This expository nonfiction text is about how living things have adapted traits of mimicry or camouflage to either fool or attract prey …
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Line Drive
This autobiography takes place in the 1960’s, when girls were not allowed to play on boys’ baseball teams, so even though T…
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Firestorm
When Axel and his family take a rafting trip down the swift Salmon River, they sense little risk when smoke appears in the quiet, dry w…
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On the Banks of Plum Creek - Includes Sample Writing Tas…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. In this historical fi…
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Leonardo's Horse - Includes Sample Writing Task
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. This narrative nonfic…
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Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World - Includes Sam…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Justin is upset that …
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The Adventurers
This play is about a group of boys and girls who are summertime campers at the National Sea Base camp in the Florida Keys. Their advent…
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Danitra Brown Leaves Town
“Danitra Brown Leaves Town” is a series of poems about two young city girls, Danitra and Zuri, who are best friends, and Da…
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Emerald's Egg
This informational narrative in the form of a play is about a group of fourth grade students who volunteer to work with rangers on Padr…
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Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life
Hewitt is quite extraordinary--though he is a son of giants, he is small in stature, yet quite adept at taking care of himself and, wor…
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Iditarod Dream
Dusty Whittemore faces several challenges and below-freezing weather during the Junior Iditarod race in Alaska. Two tangles, a snowmobi…
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Mountains
In this informational text the author describes mountains in different parts of the world. He tells about the effects of erosion on mou…
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Pedro Puts on a Play
Pedro’s teacher gives a weekend homework assignment that is supposed to be fun for everyone, but Pedro is worried that he doesn&r…
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So You Want to be an Inventor
This informational text details traits and characteristics that different inventors throughout history have demonstrated and how those …
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Weaving a California Tradition
The entire Tex family is involved in the hard work of basket making, preserving a tribal tradition. They gather materials from various …
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Everglades
As five children travel through the Florida Everglades by canoe, their guide tells them about the evolution of the landscape and life f…
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Hattie's Birthday Box
Seventy-four years ago, Spencer gave his sister Hattie a wooden box as a wedding gift, and though it was empty, told her there was some…
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Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family - Includes Samp…
This lesson includes scaffolded analytical writing tasks that provide examples for teaching Common Core writing. Mary (Yingmei) Yang i…