• 03/29/23
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This culturally relevant text set focuses on building student understanding of the limbic system in the brain and how it’s connec…

Grades 6–9

• 12/17/20
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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…

Grades 6–8

• 02/19/20
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This seven-step protocol outlines how to perform small group interventions for middle school and high school students reading below gra…

Grades 6–12

• 09/21/16
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Each text set:  Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…

Grades 6–8

• 10/28/15
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Includes: Primary source text on early American history Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt for writ…

Grade 7

• 08/15/15
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Each text set:  Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resourc…

Grades 6–8

• 08/15/15
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Each text set:  Centers on a single topic (i.e., insects, desert animals, entrepreneurship) and contains a variety of resources…

Grades 5–7

• 03/20/15
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Includes: Primary source text on women's rights Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Writing prompt for writing…

Grade 7

• 03/20/15
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Includes: 2 primary source texts on U.S. and Native American relations Text-dependent questions Academic vocabulary list Wri…

Grade 7

• 10/30/14
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"Life Without Gravity," a nonfiction selection, is designed to help students become familiar with the characteristics of an expository …

Grade 7

• 10/30/14
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“The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life” describes a cattle drive from the perspective of real cowboys who rode on one. (P…

Grade 7

• 10/30/14
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Megan’s Great-grandmother Breckenridge has lived in three centuries.  She was born in 1899 and now it is 2001.  On the …

Grade 7

• 09/29/14
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Jabberwocky is an epic poem told through nonsense words. The poem relates a father’s quest for his son that involves the slaying …

Grade 7

• 09/29/14
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A sixth grade boy lives with his mother. The mother maintains their livelihood with a blue collar job. In the story, William wants to f…

Grade 7

• 09/29/14
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As the narrator sends her son Laurie off to kindergarten, she fears that her sweet child has become a “swaggering character.&rdqu…

Grade 7

• 09/29/14
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Two men are handcuffed together board a train.  Miss Fairchild, a young and elegant woman, recognizes the younger of the two men, …

Grade 7

• 09/29/14
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Echo is a nymph that likes to gossips so a spell is cast upon her to only reiterate things that she has heard. Her spell became the cau…

Grade 7

• 09/13/14
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When a sudden and inexplicable force causes everything to stop working on Maple Street, the people there begin to wonder who or what is…

Grade 7

• 09/13/14
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In this essay, Mandela explains his shifting understandings of freedom based on different stages in his life. Mandela explain how his p…

Grade 7

• 09/13/14
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This autobiographical piece tells what a neat, tidy rule-follower this author was in his youth.  Once he was unfairly given a dete…

Grade 7

• 09/13/14
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This is a poem about love that Poe has written in memory of his wife, whom he calls Annabel Lee. Annabel Lee and the narrator were so i…

Grade 7

• 07/07/14
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Collection of social studies texts and text-dependent questions. Organized by grade (K-8) and lexile.

Grades K–8

• 09/27/13
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This module consists of three units. In Unit 1, students build background knowledge about the central role that water plays in all life…

Grades 6–8

• 09/15/13
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The Colorin Colorado website provides resources for educators, administrators and families of English Language Learners (ELLs). It incl…

Grades K–12

• 08/23/13
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Quick reference chart helps teachers identify readers who need fluency support, set goals, and track progress.

Grades 1–8

• 08/22/13
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Almost every culture has a traditional tale about character who is granted three wishes. Two are usually used unwisely, and then the th…

Grade 7

• 08/22/13
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The main character, Esperanza, desperately wants to eat in the lunchroom at school, with the other boys and girls who do not go home fo…

Grade 7

• 08/22/13
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Fourteen year-old Greg Ridley gets into an argument with his father over his bad grades and his father forbids him to play basketball. …

Grade 7

• 08/22/13
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Julia Alvarez recalls her family’s early years as Dominican immigrants in America. She describes her reactions to the mispronunci…

Grade 7

• 08/22/13
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This excerpt from Jackie Robinson’s autobiography, "I Never Had It Made," begins with the history behind Branch Rickey’s pl…

Grade 7

• 08/22/13
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In this excerpt from Galarza’s memoir he recants his experiences in a new school in a new country, the United States. He describe…

Grade 7

• 04/10/13
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Two-day series of sample lessons includes:  Text dependent questions Student discussion activities Vocabulary and syntax task…

Grade 7

• 04/10/13
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To request access to this lesson, please click "Send Feedback". Three-to-four day series of sample lessons includes:  Text dep…

Grade 7

• 04/03/13
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Outlines the key areas in which to support struggling readers. By educators David and Meredith Liben.

Grades 6–12