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Passage Grade Concept
'Tis the Season 3 Classify and Categorize
A Bad Move 5 Plot
A Bird Came Down 6 Plot
A Child in Hiding 6 Genre
A Clean Park 2 Theme
A Constitution for Kids 6 Fact and Opinion
A Day for Veterans 2 Main Idea
A Day to Celebrate Earth 2 Author's Purpose
A Deep Sea Wonderland 2 Vocabulary in Context
A Dodgy Call 3 Main Idea
A Duck out of Water 4 Predicting
A Fawn in the Forest 2 Setting
A Frog's Life 3 Main Idea
A Healthy Smile 2 Voice
A Hero With Heart 5 Author's Purpose
A Hole in the Planet! 6 Vocabulary in Context
A Juicy Problem 5 Figurative Language
A Leaping Birthday 5 Plot
A Lesson in Courage 5 Sequence
A Liger's Tale 6 Figurative Language
A Museum of Their Own 6 Drawing Conclusions
A New Home 3 Figurative Language
A New Home 4 Setting
A New Tail 3 Main Idea
A Polar Bear Grows Up 2 Vocabulary in Context
A Rally Against Poverty 3 Character
A Real Life Bat Man 5 Figurative Language
A Scared Tiger 2 Drawing Conclusions
A Scared Tiger 2 Plot
A School for Heroes 5 Main Idea
A Secret Note 6 Plot
A Small Life 4 Setting
A Stargazers Guide to Mission Control 5 Genre
A Ton of Trash 4 Classify and Categorize
A Tricky Monkey 3 Theme
A Tricky Monkey 3 Author's Purpose
A Tricky Move 6 Drawing Conclusions
A Very Special Place 4 Setting
A View from Space 5 Main Idea
Accident Prone 4 Plot
African American Leaders 2 Drawing Conclusions
African American Leaders 2 Character
African American Newsmakers 3 Character
African Animals 2 Drawing Conclusions
Alex's Lemonade Stand 2 Plot
Aliens Invade! 5 Cause and Effect
All About Ants 2 Voice
All about Mysteries 6 Genre
All in a Week 3 Theme
All Split Up 4 Drawing Conclusions
Amazing Bats 2 Voice
American Symbols 2 Drawing Conclusions
An Upset 4 Plot
Animal Instinct 4 Author's Purpose
Animals Get Ready 3 Classify and Categorize
Animals of the Rain Forest 2 Explicit Information
Another Missing Person 6 Setting
Ants in Action 2 Main Idea
Apple Picking Time 2 Main Idea
Apples The Health Benefits 6 Main Idea
April Fool's Day 6 Theme
Archaeologists Hit a Homer Run 6 Explicit Information
Are Roller Coasters Safe? 3 Genre
Are School Uniforms Really That Bad? 4 Fact and Opinion
Are You a Fit Kid? 3 Vocabulary in Context
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? 6 Author's Purpose
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? 4 Main Idea
Attack of the Nerves 5 Main Idea
Aunt Melba 6 Genre
Avian Influenza 5 Explicit Information
Awake After Dark 2 Main Idea
Awesome Animal Homes 2 Drawing Conclusions
Back from the Brink 3 Author's Purpose
Backpacks Mean Backaches 2 Cause and Effect
Backpacks to Fight Hunger 5 Voice
Banding Together 4 Genre
Banning Junk Food 2 Author's Purpose
Bare Bones 2 Explicit Information
Battle Over the Pledge 5 Voice
Be a Safe Sport 3 Voice
Becoming Expert Readers 2 Author's Purpose
Behind the Lens 4 Main Idea
Beyond the Shuttle 5 Compare and Contrast
BFF 6 Setting
Big Bird Found 3 Main Idea
Big Birds, Big City 5 Compare and Contrast
Big Burger Battle 6 Figurative Language
Big Burger Battle 4 Figurative Language
Big City 3 Setting
Big Dreams 5 Character
Big Hope 4 Main Idea
Birth of a Mighty River 3 Drawing Conclusions
Blue Bloods of the Sea 3 Explicit Information
Bones On the Go! 5 Figurative Language
Born to Run 4 Main Idea
Boys Only - Girls Only! 4 Main Idea
Boys' Choir of Harlem 3 Character
Branching Out 4 Classify and Categorize
Bridging the Gap 6 Voice
Bringing Books to Life 3 Drawing Conclusions
Brotherly Love: A Korean Folktale Retold 5 Drawing Conclusions, Theme
Buckle Up? 4 Main Idea
Bug Power 3 Main Idea
Can the Amazon Be Saved? 4 Cause and Effect
Canine Courage 6 Vocabulary in Context
Captain Dang Tames the Alhambra Beast 6 Genre
Case of the Missing Cheese 2 Genre
Casey Saves the Play 3 Plot
Casey Saves the Play 3 Author's Purpose
Cashing In 4 Main Idea
Cat Treats Stops Mosquitoes 3 Voice
Catch That Ball 3 Predicting
Catch the Breeze 4 Main Idea
Caught in a Lie 3 Plot
Caught in a Lie 3 Drawing Conclusions
Celebrate National Nutrition Month! 2 Main Idea
Celebrations Around the World 2 Classify and Categorize
Change at the United Nations 3 Genre
Chasing Dreams 6 Main Idea
Chew on This 2 Explicit Information
Children in the Shadows 5 Sequence
Children of the Storm 5 Cause and Effect
Children Under 12 Banned from Skateboarding 4 Compare and Contrast
Children's Poet Honored 4 Voice
China Under Attack 6 Author's Purpose
Chomp! Different Teeth Have Different Jobs 2 Main Idea
City of Broken Records 6 Main Idea
Clean Energy 3 Main Idea
Climbing the Walls 5 Predicting
Cloned Canine 5 Figurative Language
Coins! 2 Fact and Opinion
Cold Faithful 6 Vocabulary in Context
Colonial Life versus Life Today 3 Compare and Contrast
Colorful Crayons 2 Sequence
Columbus Was an Explorer 3 Main Idea
Congress Speaks Spanish 4 Vocabulary in Context
Cool Cats 5 Voice
Coral Reef Goes Digital 3 Setting
Couch Potato Central 4 Figurative Language
Creepy Cave Crawlers 4 Classify and Categorize
Creepy Cave Crawlers 4 Classify and Categorize
Crisis in Africa 5 Cause and Effect
Cross Train Your Way to Fitness 5 Main Idea
Curfew Letter 4 Fact and Opinion
Dance Fever 5 Genre
Danger Online 6 Fact and Opinion
Dead Zone 4 Cause and Effect
Dear Diary 2 Fact and Opinion
Dear Mr. President 4 Cause and Effect
Dear Mr. President 5 Cause and Effect
Deep Sea Search 4 Character
Device May Help Blind People See 4 Main Idea
Dig This! 6 Compare and Contrast
Digging Deeper 5 Vocabulary in Context
Dino News 3 Main Idea
Dinosaur Chomper 3 Figurative Language
Dinosaur Discovery 2 Compare and Contrast
Dinosaur World 2 Main Idea
Dive into a Coral Reef 4 Main Idea
Dive into a Coral Reef 2 Figurative Language
Do You Have Good Posture 2 Cause and Effect
Don't Know Much About Liberty 6 Classify and Categorize
Don’t Miss the Festival at Olympia! 4 Author's Purpose
Dream Machines 5 Classify and Categorize
Drilling for Alaska 4 Compare and Contrast
Earth 2072 4 Genre
Earth Rocks 2 Classify and Categorize
Endangered Animals at a Glance 6 Classify and Categorize
Endangered Animals at a Glance 5 Cause and Effect
Eruption! 3 Predicting
Escape From France 6 Sequence
Escape from Kiev 6 Predicting
Every Hour Counts 3 Compare and Contrast
Explore Our Solar System 3 Main Idea
Explore Space 2 Main Idea
Explore the Seashore 2 Explicit Information
Extreme Animals 3 Explicit Information
Eyewitness to History 6 Character
Eyewitness to History: Children of War 5 Theme
Eyewitness to History: Grandma was a Protester 5 Voice
Eyewitness to History: I'm American No Matter What 5 Theme
Fashion Do or Don't 4 Fact and Opinion
Fatty Foods 6 Figurative Language
Feeling Sick 3 Main Idea
Fiesta! 2 Main Idea
Finders Keepers 6 Predicting
Finger Food 5 Drawing Conclusions
Fire Safety 2 Main Idea
Firefighters Fight Fires 2 Sequence
First Aid and Safety 5 Main Idea
First Ladies 6 Compare and Contrast
Fit for Life 3 Classify and Categorize
Fit for Life 3 Author's Purpose
Fleeing Goma 3 Figurative Language
Flu Frenzy 3 Figurative Language
Focus on Scientists 2 Genre
Follow that Koala! 4 Compare and Contrast
Food For Action 3 Main Idea
Food for Thought 5 Fact and Opinion
Free Speech at School 4 Vocabulary in Context
Freedom's Road 6 Voice
Friendly Faces 2 Character
Friends Food Fun at the Zoo 2 Character
Friendship Problems Solved 3 Main Idea
Frogs at Risk 4 Cause and Effect
Frogs at Risk 4 Compare and Contrast
From Pet to Threat 4 Fact and Opinion
Front of the Bus 6 Author's Purpose
Fuels of the Future 6 Compare and Contrast
Game On 3 Voice
Gasping for Air 3 Main Idea
Germs Go to School 3 Voice
Get in the Loop 4 Sequence
Get Ready for Winter 2 Compare and Contrast
Get Up and Go 4 Author's Purpose
Get Well Lance K Sequence
Get Your Zzzs to Get A's 5 Main Idea
Give Thanks 2 Author's Purpose
Gloria’s Walk 3 Setting
Good Chimp 4 Main Idea
Good Idea 3 Main Idea
Goodbye to Lice 5 Author's Purpose
Goodbye to Tag 3 Voice
Got Tissues? 4 Main Idea
Great Lakes 6 Drawing Conclusions
Great Wall Great Jump 5 Drawing Conclusions
Green Machines 5 Drawing Conclusions
Growing Up In Darfur 6 Cause and Effect
Growing Up Long Ago 2 Fact and Opinion
Grown Up 4 Theme
Happy Holidays 2 Main Idea
Hard Rocks 6 Cause and Effect
Hard Times For Honeybees 4 Predicting
Harry's Magical Spell 5 Fact and Opinion
Head Count 3 Vocabulary in Context
Heading West 4 Main Idea
Heading West 2 Compare and Contrast
Heading West 2 Drawing Conclusions
Healing Paws 5 Main Idea
Healthy Plates 3 Explicit Information
Heavy Metal 6 Main Idea
Helping Hands 4 Voice
Her Own Room 6 Setting
Hidden Habitats 6 Explicit Information
Hide and Seek 4 Predicting
High Five 6 Character
Hispanic Population Soars 3 Author's Purpose
Hispanic Population Soars 3 Author's Purpose
Honest Abe's Museum 5 Genre
Honoring King 4 Theme
Honoring King 4 Genre
Hook, Line, and Sinker 6 Explicit Information
Hooray 2 Main Idea
Hot for Hybrids 5 Vocabulary in Context
Hot Topics 6 Author's Purpose
How Music Affects Your Mood 5 Main Idea
How Shots Can Help Fight Disease 6 Main Idea
How to Say What You're Feeling 5 Main Idea
How to Spy on Sharks 4 Vocabulary in Context
Humpty Dumpty K Genre Studies
Ice City 3 Cause and Effect
Icy Voyage 6 Author's Purpose
If 5 Theme
Ig Nobel Winners 6 Voice
In Flight 2 Main Idea
In Memory of Dr. King 3 Drawing Conclusions
In the Enemy's Grip 6 Character
In the Night K Drawing Conclusions
India's Growing Power 4 Figurative Language
Instrumental Talent 6 Character
Into the Flames 3 Vocabulary in Context
Inventions of the Future 4 Predicting
Inventions: Then and Now 2 Compare and Contrast
Is It Time For a New Toothbrush? 2 Main Idea
It is Apple Season 2 Author's Purpose
It's Chinese New Year 2 Explicit Information
It's Lousy to Get Lice 5 Main Idea
Jack and Jill K Genre Studies
Jenna and the Black Cat 6 Theme
Jenny's Move 2 Theme
Johnny's First Job 5 Setting
Jose’s Baseball Routine 3 Sequence
Juiced 5 Main Idea
Junk Food Ad Attack! 3 Fact and Opinion
Junk Food Battles 3 Fact and Opinion
Just Get Movin' 6 Main Idea
Just What the Doctor Ordered 6 Vocabulary in Context
Kick It 4 Main Idea
Kid Ambassadors 4 Character
Kids Weigh In 3 Compare and Contrast
Killing Fields 6 Explicit Information
Kim's Hungry Pet 4 Plot
King of the Slowpokes 3 Figurative Language
Knocked Down 3 Theme
Kwan's Crusade 6 Character
Leading Lady 3 Main Idea
Leaping Lizards 5 Main Idea
Leaving Home 4 Sequence
Let it Snow 4 Main Idea
Let's Celebrate 2 Main Idea
Let's Explore Caves 2 Main Idea
Letter from Camp 5 Setting
Letter to the Editor 4 Compare and Contrast
Life on the Space Station 2 Character
Little Miss Muffet K Genre Studies
Little Red Wagon 4 Theme
Living on the Edge 6 Classify and Categorize
Living on the Moon 6 Predicting
Long Live the Vikings 5 Vocabulary in Context
Look at Leaves 2 Drawing Conclusions
Look Who's Talking 3 Cause and Effect
Lost And Found 6 Predicting
Lost Treasure 3 Plot
Lucky Shot! 4 Explicit Information
Lungs Peek in the Afternoon 6 Main Idea
Machines Can Move 2 Vocabulary in Context
Madam President 6 Sequence
Magellan Was First 3 Sequence
Mammouth Fossil Found 5 Main Idea
Marathon Kids 5 Main Idea
Massive Monument 5 Character
McGwire Strikes Out 4 Character
Mean Machines 4 Vocabulary in Context
Meerkat Lessons 3 Character
Meet the Emperors 2 Predicting
Mission Pluto 5 Explicit Information
Modern Marvels 4 Classify and Categorize
Mohawk Monkey Discovered 3 Explicit Information
Money Matters 2 Genre
Monster of the North 4 Figurative Language
Moose on the Move 3 Cause and Effect
Mosquitoes Don't Bug These Monkeys 2 Figurative Language
Muscles and Bones 5 Main Idea
Must See TV 4 Main Idea
My Brother and I 2 Compare and Contrast
My Favorite Day 3 Figurative Language
My Friend, the Snake 2 Voice
My Life 3 Character
My Moment 2 Voice
My Summer Vacation 1 Sequence
NASA Stardust Review 6 Fact and Opinion
Native American 2 Character
Natural Wonders 3 Main Idea
NBA Tosses Out New Basketball 4 Main Idea
New Lives for Old Buses 6 Main Idea
New Mystery at Stonehenge 4 Fact and Opinion
New Vinci 6 Main Idea
News About Fast Food 6 Main Idea
News Debate Out Of Touch 5 Genre
News Debate Tough Cell 5 Fact and Opinion
News Shorts Tomb Raiders 6 Main Idea
Night Owl 4 Setting
No Snow Required 5 Explicit Information
No Way Out 5 Setting
Nobel Work 4 Fact and Opinion
Not So Loony Toons 6 Drawing Conclusions
Nothing By the Tooth 6 Main Idea
Nothing Left to Lose 5 Compare and Contrast
Now Hear This 4 Cause and Effect
Now That's a Big Bird! 2 Main Idea
O Say, Can You . . . Sing? 4 Explicit Information
Oh My Aching Head 6 Main Idea
Oh Nuts! 2 Theme
Old Time Operations 5 Sequence
On Hallowed Ground 5 Fact and Opinion
On the Prowl 6 Classify and Categorize
On Top of the World 5 Main Idea
Once Upon a Time 5 Author's Purpose
One Big Family 4 Predicting
Operation Obesity 6 Main Idea
Osceola's Last Stand 5 Compare and Contrast
Our New Old House 3 Setting
Our World 2 Classify and Categorize
Out of This World 3 Main Idea
Out West 3 Setting
Out West 3 Drawing Conclusions
Out West 4 Setting
Out with the Old 6 Setting
Panda Parade 5 Main Idea
Panthers in Peril 4 Vocabulary in Context
Paradise Lost 5 Drawing Conclusions
Pet Cemetery 5 Vocabulary in Context
Pete vs. the Python 6 Main Idea
Pick Your Portion 6 Main Idea
Picking Up the Pieces 4 Sequence
Pitcher Perfect 5 Character
Pizza Problems 6 Cause and Effect
Place in Space 5 Predicting
Planet Y 3 Genre
Practice Makes Pain 6 Figurative Language
Presidents Come Alive 6 Classify and Categorize
Presidents' Day is Here 2 Main Idea
Princess Lily 1 Main Idea
Princess Lily 2 Plot
Problems for Pandas 3 Main Idea
Protecting the Platypus 5 Character
Pumpkins Are Popping Up Everywhere! 2 Sequence
Puppet Power! 6 Explicit Information
Quake in Indonesia 6 Genre
Rachel Meets Harry 3 Setting
Rain Forest Rescue 4 Drawing Conclusions
Rainy Day 3 Setting
Ready for Cold Weather 2 Main Idea
Ready to Rumble 5 Classify and Categorize
Recess Risk 4 Voice
Reef Building 3 Vocabulary in Context
Remote Control Classroom 4 Compare and Contrast
Remote Control Classroom 6 Cause and Effect
Return of the Bear 3 Sequence
Return of the Cube 6 Figurative Language
Return to Flight 4 Cause and Effect
Ride of the Century 4 Classify and Categorize
Right On 5 Fact and Opinion
Robo Helpers 4 Drawing Conclusions
Royal Pain 4 Main Idea
Rumble in the Jungle 6 Main Idea
Ryan's Well 4 Compare and Contrast
Safe at Home 3 Genre
Safe Ride 3 Cause and Effect
Sailing Into History 6 Sequence
Save the Whales 6 Plot
Saving Big Cats 3 Classify and Categorize
Saving for a Cause 3 Sequence
Saving Hawaiian Monk Seals 3 Main Idea
Saving the Animals 3 Drawing Conclusions
School Colors 5 Voice
School of Skate 4 Main Idea
School: How Has It Changed? 2 Compare and Contrast
Secrets of the Great Pyramid 3 Predicting
Security Buzz 6 Drawing Conclusions
Shearing Shrek 4 Voice
Should Dogs Work? 3 Main Idea
Should You Be Afraid of Sharks? 2 Fact and Opinion
Sister Act 6 Compare and Contrast
Six and a Half Billion and Counting 3 Fact and Opinion
Slavery in the North 6 Voice
Slavery's Secrets 4 Compare and Contrast
Smile! Show Off Those Pearly Whites 2 Author's Purpose
Smoking Hurts People 2 Voice
Smoking Hurts the Lungs and Heart 3 Author's Purpose
Smoking Hurts the Lungs and Heart 3 Author's Purpose
Snack Signals 5 Main Idea
Snake Attack 6 Main Idea
Snake, Rattle, and Roll 6 Sequence
Snow Science 2 Cause and Effect
Solar Solo 5 Explicit Information
Space Vacation 4 Drawing Conclusions
Spiders and a Balanced Diet 4 Drawing Conclusions
Spinning Storms 2 Main Idea
Splash Into Summer 2 Author's Purpose
Spooky Spiders 2 Figurative Language
Spreading His Wings 4 Main Idea
Spring 6 Genre
Spring into Poetry 3 Main Idea
Star Power 5 Character
Star Spangled Relic 5 Drawing Conclusions
Starting Over 3 Compare and Contrast
Stay Candle Safe 3 Author's Purpose
Stinky Job 4 Genre
Stop Bullying 3 Genre
Stopping the Spread 5 Sequence
Storm Chasers 4 Main Idea
Storm Warning 5 Predicting
Stormy Weather 2 Main Idea
Students Get Healthy 4 Explicit Information
Students Get Healthy! 4 Author's Purpose
Stuttering 5 Main Idea
Super Stats 4 Compare and Contrast
Super Survival Skills 2 Drawing Conclusions
Superstars of Science 5 Classify and Categorize
Surprise Encounter 6 Plot
Survive 3 Main Idea
Take the Plunge 6 Main Idea
Taming Sibling Rivalry 6 Main Idea
Taste This 5 Predicting
That Tickles 6 Cause and Effect
Thawing the Iceman 2 Vocabulary in Context
The Aliens are Coming 5 Main Idea
The Amazing Flying Machine 4 Main Idea
The Bat 2 Voice
The Beach 2 Setting
The Big Break 6 Plot
The Big Game 2 Sequence
The Blackout 6 Setting
The Boy and a Wish 6 Predicting
The Boy and a Wish 5 Genre
The Boy Who Cried Wolf 5 Plot
The British are Coming 5 Setting
The British are Coming! 5 Genre, Setting, Vocabulary in Context
The Buzz About Honey 2 Sequence
The Camping Trip 2 Setting
The Chimps Champ 4 Character
The Concert 2 Voice
The Cutest Animal Finalists 2 Fact and Opinion
The Dawn of the Mayas 5 Classify and Categorize
The Final Deployment 5 Figurative Language
The First Day of School 1 Sequence
The First Thanksgiving 2 Plot
The Flu and You 4 Main Idea
The Future is Ours 6 Genre
The Gender Gap 6 Voice
The Grasshopper and the Ant 4 Theme
The Great Escape 3 Plot
The Great Escape 4 Figurative Language
The Great Gift 4 Drawing Conclusions
The Great Gift 4 Plot
The Heat is On 4 Author's Purpose
The High Dive 3 Theme
The Hiking Trip 3 Plot
The Homework Hubbub 5 Compare and Contrast
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Returns 5 Author's Purpose
The King of Bling 5 Vocabulary in Context
The Koala Search 5 Predicting
The Latest Buzz 6 Main Idea
The Life Cycle of a Frog 3 Sequence
The Life of a Cat 5 Theme
The Lobster Blues 3 Vocabulary in Context
The Lost Kitten 1 Sequence
The Lottery 4 Theme
The Magician 3 Predicting
The Making of a President 6 Sequence
The Making of a President 4 Sequence
The Missing Rock 2 Plot
The New Scooter 2 Theme
The Night Shift 6 Main Idea
The Night Shift 4 Explicit Information
The Olympics Then and Now 3 Compare and Contrast
The Park 4 Plot
The Party's Over 3 Explicit Information
The Pilot 3 Figurative Language
The Sandwich Thief 2 Predicting
The Scary Snake 2 Voice
The Scavenger Hunt 5 Plot
The Scientific Method 5 Sequence
The Secret to Silk 5 Main Idea
The Shortcut 4 Theme
The Sinking City 6 Fact and Opinion
The Sounds Spring Brings 2 Classify and Categorize
The Story of the Pilgrims 2 Genre
The Strength of Three 6 Theme
The Struggle for Equality 5 Main Idea
The Surprise Party 3 Figurative Language
The Surprise Party II 3 Figurative Language
The Time Machine 2 Setting
The Tree 2 Setting
The Two Best Cakes 2 Predicting
The Weight Debate 6 Fact and Opinion
The Wise Choice 3 Theme
The Year was 1972 5 Genre, Setting, Vocabulary in Context
The Yo Yo 2 Theme
They're Back 4 Voice
Thirty Minutes Alone 5 Plot
Three Blind Mice K Genre Studies
Time for Change 4 Main Idea
Time to Think 6 Compare and Contrast
Time Travel to Jamestown 6 Vocabulary in Context
To the Moon 3 Sequence
To the Moon And Back 5 Figurative Language
To the Rescue 2 Main Idea
Tossing Around Dodgeball 4 Genre
Tough Talkin'! 3 Author's Purpose
Tour the White House 2 Genre
Traveling Turtles 2 Predicting
Tribal Tribute 4 Fact and Opinion
Trouble at the Border 6 Genre
Trouble in the Amazon 3 Main Idea
Trouble in the Ocean 3 Main Idea
Turn It Off 4 Author's Purpose
Twins' Luck 5 Theme
Twister Touchdown 4 Explicit Information
Under the Sea 4 Vocabulary in Context
Up to Speed 4 Figurative Language
Vanishing Frogs 3 Classify and Categorize
Vanishing Vultures 5 Author's Purpose
Viking Voyages 4 Sequence
Volcanoes 2 Main Idea
War Stories 4 Main Idea
Washington Rides Again 3 Fact and Opinion
Watch Your Commas 4 Character
Water Woes 4 Sequence
We Need Water 2 Cause and Effect
We're Going to a Powwow 2 Main Idea
Welcome Aboard! 2 Sequence
Welcome Back! 2 Figurative Language
Welcome Home 5 Setting
Whale Watch! 2 Vocabulary in Context
What Did You Say? 6 Theme
What's Cooking 2 Classify and Categorize
What's Cooking 5 Classify and Categorize
What's in a Name? 6 Theme
What's New at the Zoo 3 Cause and Effect
What's Your EyeQue 6 Main Idea
When Lightning Strikes 4 Author's Purpose
Where Does Food Go? 2 Main Idea
Where the Bison Roam 5 Explicit Information
Where Will I Live? 2 Predicting
Who Turned Up the Heat 5 Main Idea
Whoop It Up! 3 Predicting
Why Learn Chinese 3 Drawing Conclusions
Wild Waves 2 Voice
Wild Weather 2 Cause and Effect
Will You Go to School This Summer? 2 Fact and Opinion
Wings in the Dark 6 Main Idea
Winning the Vote 3 Compare and Contrast
Winter is Coming 4 Main Idea
Wired World 4 Main Idea
Wise Old Whales 2 Voice
Wolf Watch 5 Main Idea
Wonderful Trees 2 Figurative Language
Working Kids 6 Main Idea
You're in the Army Now 3 Main Idea
You're Out 3 Fact and Opinion
Your Respiration System 5 Main Idea
“The Ant and the Cricket” Retold 5 Theme
“The Lion and The Mouse” Retold 5 Cause and Effect, Character, Plot, Theme
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