ReadWorks reading passages can support your students in building even more background knowledge around Louisiana's ELA Guidebooks 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.
Third Grade
UNIT 1: Stories Julian Tells
UNIT 2: Cajun Folktales
UNIT 3: Because of Winn-Dixie
Unit 4: Treasure Island
Unit 5: Louisiana Purchase
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Fourth Grade
UNIT 1: The Whipping Boy
UNIT 2: Hurricanes
UNIT 3: Pushing Up the Sky
Unit 4: The Lightning Thief
Unit 5: American Revolution
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Fifth Grade
UNIT 1: The Birchbark House
UNIT 2: The Making of a Scientist
UNIT 3: Wonderstruck
Unit 4: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Unit 5: Shutting Out the Sky
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Sixth Grade
UNIT 1: If Stones Could Speak
UNIT 2: Steve Jobs
UNIT 3: Hatchet
Unit 4: Out of the Dust
Unit 5: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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Seventh Grade
unit 1: Written in Bone
unit 2: A Christmas Carol
unit 3: The Giver
unit 4: Memoir
unit 5: Behind the Scenes
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Eighth Grade
unit 1: Flowers for Algernon
unit 2: Sugar
unit 3: The Tell-Tale Heart
unit 4: Conservation
unit 5: The Call of the Wild
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Ninth Grade
unit 1: Photojournalism
unit 2: A Lesson Before Dying
unit 3: The Joy Luck Club
unit 4: Romeo and Juliet
unit 5: Teenage Brains
unit 6: The Cost of Freedom
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Tenth Grade
unit 1: Life of Pi
unit 2: Hamilton
unit 3: Things Falls Apart
unit 4: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
unit 5: Bioethics
unit 6: Storytelling
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Eleventh Grade
unit 1: The Great Gatsby
unit 2: Friday Night Lights
unit 3: Film in America
unit 4: The Warmth of Other Suns
unit 5: Homeownership
unit 6: The Holocaust
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Twelfth Grade
unit 1: Education
unit 2: Hamlet
unit 3: In The Time of Butterflies
unit 4: 1984
unit 5: Artificial Intelligence
unit 6: Impact of War
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