ReadWorks reading passages can support your students in building even more background knowledge around your Fishtank Learning curriculum. The passages, grouped by Unit, can be digitally assigned, printed, or projected. The links below go right to the passage, including its interactive vocabulary activity and comprehension-monitoring question set.
Kindergarten
UNIT 1: Welcome to School
UNIT 2: Noticing Patterns in Stories
UNIT 3: Celebrating Fall
Unit 4: Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators
Unit 5: Winter Wonderland
unit 6: What is Justice?
unit 7: Exploring Life Cycles
unit 8: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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First Grade
unit 1: Being a Good Friend
unit 2: Folktales Around the World
unit 3: Amazing Animals
unit 4: Love Makes a Family
unit 5: Inspiring Artists and Musicians
unit 6: The Power of Reading
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Second Grade
unit 1: Cinderella Around the World
unit 2: Exploring Habitats
unit 3: Belonging and Friendship: Pinky and Rex
unit 4: Stories of Immigration
unit 5: Finding Your Power: Freddie Ramos
unit 6: Inside the Human Body
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Third Grade
Unit 1: Defining Identity: Dyamonde Daniel and My Name is María Isabel
unit 2: Rediscovering Thanksgiving: Fact vs. Fiction
unit 3: Passing Down Wisdom: Hispanic and African American Folktales
unit 4: Understanding the Animal Kingdom
unit 5: Embracing Difference: The Hundred Dresses and Garvey's Choice
unit 6: Honoring Indigenous People
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Fourth Grade
unit 1: Finding Fortune: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
unit 2: Preparing for the Worst: Natural Disasters
unit 3: Interpreting Perspectives: Greek Myths
unit 4: Examining Our History: American Revolution
unit 5: Believing in Yourself: The Wild Book
unit 6: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
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Fifth Grade
unit 1: Building Community: Seedfolks
unit 2: Exploring Human Rights: The Breadwinner
unit 3: Protecting the Earth: Plastic Pollution
unit 4: Young Heroes: Children of the Civil Rights Movement
unit 5: Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer
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Sixth Grade
unit 1: Developing Resilience: The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
unit 2: Challenging Authority: The Giver
unit 3: Expressing Yourself: Women in the Arts
unit 4: Finding Connection: The Outsiders
unit 5: Fleeing Conflict: Refugee & The Unwanted
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Seventh Grade
unit 1: Defining America: Poems, Essays, and Short Stories
unit 2: Fighting Injustice: Uprising & Flesh and Blood So Cheap
unit 3: Pursuing Dreams: A Raisin in the Sun
unit 4: Finding Home: The House on Mango Street
unit 5: Exploring Identity: American Born Chinese
unit 6: Claiming Our Place: LGBTQ+ Experiences in the United States
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Eighth Grade
unit 1: Facing Prejudice: All American Boys
unit 2: Encountering Evil: Night
unit 3: Abusing Power: Animal Farm and Wicked History
unit 4: Surviving Repression: Persepolis
Unit 5: Facing Calamity: Climate Change Facts and Fictions
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Ninth Grade
unit 1: Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Text
unit 2: You Laugh But It’s True: Humor and Institutional Racism in Born a Crime
unit 3: Power, Justice, and Culpability: Of Mice and Men and The Central Park Five
unit 4: ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies
Unit 5: Gender and Power in The Taming of the Shrew
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Tenth Grade
unit 1: Altruism and Interconnectedness in Short Texts
unit 2: Censorship, Truth & Happiness in Fahrenheit 451
unit 3: Feminism and Self-Respect in Sula
unit 4: Home, Grief, and Storytelling in Men We Reaped
Unit 5: Sanity & Madness in A Streetcar Named Desire & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
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Eleventh Grade
unit 1: The Glass Menagerie
unit 2: Things Fall Apart
unit 3: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
unit 4: Short Fiction: A Study of Genre
Unit 5: Dreaming in Cuban
unit 6: Waiting
unit 7: The Scarlet Letter
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Twelfth Grade
unit 1: Invisible Man
unit 2: A Doll's House
unit 3: The God of Small Things
unit 4: Famous Speeches
Unit 5: The Great Gatsby
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