Mini Read

Meet YouTube's Coolest Zookeeper!

Skills: Text Evidence, Grammar

Jordan Veasley is using YouTube to teach the world about animals.

Videos (1)

In the News

Are Youth Sports Out of Control?

Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L
Skills: Vocabulary, Summarizing, Text Features
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Why some young athletes feel too much pressure to compete

Skills Sheets (2)

Lesson Plan (1)

Nonfiction Feature

Up From Slavery

Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L
Skills: Text Evidence, Vocabulary, Text Features, Inference, Central Idea and Details
Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L

How Booker T. Washington helped former slaves go to school

Videos (1)

Lesson Plan (1)

True Teen Story

My Brother, My Hero

Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L
Skills: Sequencing, Problem and Solution, Vocabulary, Text Features
Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L

Find out why Olivia is inspired by her younger brother, Evan.

Videos (1)

Lesson Plan (1)

Where in the World

The Land of Gassy Sheep

Lexile® measure:700L-800L, 500L-600L, 900L-1000L
Skills: Writing and Editing
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In New Zealand, sheep burps are hurting the planet.

Skills Sheets (1)

Readers Theater Play

Hercules the Mighty

Skills: Vocabulary, Text Features, Inference

A play based on the Greek myth about the strongest man alive

Videos (1)

Lesson Plan (1)

Paired Texts

They All Failed!/How to Fail Up

Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L
Skills: Vocabulary, Text Features, Synthesizing
Lexile® measure:600L-700L, 500L-600L, 800L-900L

Learn all about the power of grit.

Videos (2)

Lesson Plan (1)

Debate

Would you Ban Texting and Walking?

Lexile® measure:700L-800L, 600L-700L, 800L-900L
Skills: Writing and Editing
Lexile® measure:700L-800L, 600L-700L, 800L-900L

Some towns are passing laws to keep people safe. Is that a good idea?

Poem

Still I Rise

Skills: Author's Craft

A excerpt from a powerful poem by Maya Angelou.

Videos (6)

Skills Sheets (3)

Lesson Plan (2)