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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls and her family are traveling by train to meet her father in Tracy. This story describes their first train ride as t…
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The Talking Cloth
Amber, her brother, and her parents visit Aunt Phoebe, a traveler, collector and storyteller. Aunt Phoebe shares a cloth with th…
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Finding the Titanic
Robert Ballard describes how he and his team discovered the Titanic in 1985. Through a flashback to the story of 12-year old Ruth…
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Cliffhanger
In this story, Dag and his son Axel are at their climbing school in the Teton Mountains when the family dog, Grits, is stranded on Cath…