EL Education and ReadWorks have partnered to share high-quality texts aligned to the EL Education curriculum and designed to build even more background knowledge around important topics. The passages, grouped below by grade and module, can be digitally assigned, printed, or projected. Each text link below includes an interactive vocabulary activity and comprehension question set.

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

MODULE 1: Overcoming Learning Challenges Near and Far
MODULE 2: Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs
MODULE 3: Exploring Literary Classics
MODULE 4: Water Around the World

Fourth Grade

MODULE 1: Poetry, Poets and Becoming Writers
MODULE 2: Animal Defense Mechanisms
MODULE 3: The American Revolution
MODULE 4: Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

Fifth Grade

MODULE 1: Stories of Human Rights
MODULE 2: Biodiversity in the Rainforest
MODULE 3: Athlete Leaders of Social Change
MODULE 4: The Impact of Natural Disasters

Sixth Grade

MODULE 1: greek mythology
MODULE 2: critical problems and design solutions
MODule 3: American indian boarding schools
module 4: remarkable accomplishments in space science

Seventh Grade

MODULE 1: The Lost Children of Sudan
MODULE 2: Epidemics
MODule 3: The Harlem Renaissance
module 4: plastic pollution

Eighth Grade

module 1: Folklore of Latin America
module 2: Food Choices
module 3: Voices of the Holocaust
module 4: Lessons from Japanese American Internment
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