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ReadWorks’ skilled team of content writers and partners spend countless hours thinking deeply about the needs of all students and how best to create our free texts, tools, and resources that promote a love of and confidence in reading, analyzing, and comprehending. Learn about what goes into creating each passage on our website in our newest blog post.
Explore Our Newest Content“I really appreciate that ReadWorks is research based and that it is free! And the number of reading passages available is huge!” –Wayne M. Written by:
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Becca Vaughn, Director of Development This Halloween, nearly 170,000 middle school students across 48 states read the thrilling new story from ReadWorks, Alien Kids. In this five-part, cliffhanger series set on a faraway planet, readers follow the story of Francisco and Katie as they sneak beyond the fence of their space colony to explore on their own. To celebrate the new series, created as part of our Fiction Library Expansion Project, ReadWorks held a national illustration contest, giving students the chance to show their knowledge of the story in a creative and exciting way. With hundreds of entries, our volunteer judges picked one final winner and four runners-up. "Drawing the illustrations made the story more meaningful than reading it alone." We’re thrilled to share that our winner is Ada Hernandez, a 5th-grader in Texas. Ada’s teacher, Shannon, shared what it was like to read the story and complete the contest as a class, "I had already decided to incorporate more visualization strategies with my students and the ReadWorks' #AlienKids Illustration Contest was the perfect way to kickstart that routine. My students were highly engaged and motivated by the Alien Kids storyline! The cliffhangers kept them interested and they were thrilled to create a draft illustration after each chapter. Furthermore, creating the illustrations improved their overall reading comprehension by authentically prompting them to re-read the passages for details and/or discussing them with classmates." On the logistics of holding a contest, Shannon said, "For the contest entries, I asked the students to choose the chapter they felt they could develop the most, using the art technique of their choice. From traditional sketches and drawings to digital illustrations to collages and paintings - students' final creations were as unique as they are. I would definitely guide my students through another ReadWorks contest in the future!"
In addition to the winning entry, our judges selected four runners-up, one for each grade level that participated in the contest. See their outstanding entries below: It isn’t too late to get creative as a class! Use any of our exciting series to host your own illustration or alternate-ending contest as a classroom or school. Share your contest with ReadWorks on social media using #ReadWorksContest or share your contest stories with our team at Engagement@ReadWorks.org. Written by:
Becca Vaughn, Director of Development
Explore Our Newest Content:“ReadWorks has been a life saver for me. My students love the library available to them for independent reading and nightly reading.” —Mr. Ahmed Written by:
Becca Vaughn, Director of Development
Explore Our Newest Content“The opportunity to use the Scope and Sequence Article-A-Day auto assignments is fantastic! I teach 120 students, so this is perfect to stay organized!!” —Kim, Educator Written by:
Becca Vaughn, Director of Development This Halloween, nearly 170,000 middle school students across 48 states read the thrilling new story from ReadWorks, Alien Kids. In this five-part, cliffhanger series set on a faraway planet, readers follow the story of Francisco and Katie as they sneak beyond the fence of their space colony to explore on their own. To celebrate the new series, created as part of our Fiction Library Expansion Project, ReadWorks held a national illustration contest, giving students the chance to show their knowledge of the story in a creative and exciting way. With hundreds of entries, our volunteer judges picked one final winner and four runners-up.
We’re thrilled to share that our winner is Ada Hernandez, a 5th-grader in Texas. Ada’s teacher, Shannon, shared what it was like to read the story and complete the contest as a class, "I had already decided to incorporate more visualization strategies with my students and the ReadWorks' #AlienKids Illustration Contest was the perfect way to kickstart that routine. My students were highly engaged and motivated by the Alien Kids storyline! The cliffhangers kept them interested and they were thrilled to create a draft illustration after each chapter. Furthermore, creating the illustrations improved their overall reading comprehension by authentically prompting them to re-read the passages for details and/or discussing them with classmates." On the logistics of holding a contest, Shannon said, "For the contest entries, I asked the students to choose the chapter they felt they could develop the most, using the art technique of their choice. From traditional sketches and drawings to digital illustrations to collages and paintings - students' final creations were as unique as they are. I would definitely guide my students through another ReadWorks contest in the future!"
In addition to the winning entry, our judges selected four runners-up, one for each grade level that participated in the contest. See their outstanding entries below: It isn’t too late to get creative as a class! Use any of our exciting series to host your own illustration or alternate-ending contest as a classroom or school. Share your contest with ReadWorks on social media using #ReadWorksContest or share your contest stories with our team at Engagement@ReadWorks.org. Written by:
Becca Vaughn, Director of Development NGSS Alignment Helps Teachers Meet Classroom GoalsIn just a few clicks, teachers can add engaging, high-quality reading to science curricula! The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are K–12 science content standards. Standards set the expectations for what students should know and be able to do. ReadWorks passages deepen students' understanding of the Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) under each NGSS standard. ReadWorks Case Study: Students Enjoy a Culture of Learning with Article-A-DayAn elementary school in Trinidad and Tobago implemented Article-A-Day school-wide for 10 months, from September 2021 to June 2022. In light of the impact of COVID-19 on student learning and the school’s shift to remote learning, the administrators’ goals for using Article-A-Day as a digital supplement were to increase students’ motivation to read, cultivate a school-wide environment for learning, and increase students’ reading fluency. Students built their background knowledge and vocabulary while being motivated by and engaged in the reading. Read about their success in our recent blog post. Meet our Newest Team Member!
Explore Our Newest ContentWritten by:
Becca Vaughn, Director of Development
Explore Our Newest Content "ReadWorks is one of the best resources I've ever used in my 20 years of teaching!!!! I use it 2-3 days a week as a supplement to our other lessons, a stand alone lesson, and/or as an individual benchmark and our students have done an excellent job with it! Thank you so much for creating this valuable resource.” —Gregory M., MD Written by:
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Explore Our Newest Content ”This is an outstanding program and we teachers so appreciate that it is free so more students can access it. Mahalo from Hawaii!!” —Faye, HI Written by:
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