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Passage Grade Lexile Level Skill/Strategy
3, 2, 1...Blast Off! 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
A Bad Move 5 880L Plot
A Chance for Freedom 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
A Distant Relative 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
A Hero With Heart 5 850L Author's Purpose
A Juicy Problem 5 730L Figurative Language
A Leaping Birthday 5 730L Plot
A Lesson in Courage 5 Non-Prose Sequence
A New World! 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
A Real Life Bat Man 5 790L Figurative Language
A School for Heroes 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
A Stargazers Guide to Mission Control 5 1130L Genre
A Well Kept Secret 5 890L Multiple Skill & Strategy
About You - How Music Affects Your Mood 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Aliens Invade! 5 910L Cause and Effect
All the 'Buzz' 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Almost Human 5 970L Multiple Skill & Strategy
America's Bird Soars 5 890L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Architecture - The Parthenon 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Architecture: Monticello - Jefferson's Masterpiece 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Architecture: Notre Dame de Paris & Gothic Architecture 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Architecture: The Duomo 5 760L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Are Manatees Out of Danger? 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Asteroid Attack! 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Astral Bodies 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Attack of the Nerves 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Avian Influenza 5 1070L Explicit Information
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas - Cuzco: City of Gold 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas - Tenochtitlan 5 740L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas - The Aztec Empire 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas - The Land of the Four Quarters 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas - The Mayans 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Backpacks to Fight Hunger 5 1070L Voice
Battle Over the Pledge 5 1110L Voice
Beyond the Shuttle 5 1110L Compare and Contrast
Big Birds, Big City 5 970L Compare and Contrast
Big Dreams 5 900L Character
Blazing Art to Go 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Bones On the Go! 5 730L Figurative Language
Brazil Today - Capoeira 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today - Carnavale 5 760L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today - Cities of Brazil 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today - The Independence of Brazil 5 810L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today: Brazil's Constitution 5 1130L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today: Futebol - Brazil's Sport 5 660L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today: The Amazon River and Basin 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Brazil Today: The Flag of Brazil 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Building a Bridge 5 960 Multiple Skill & Strategy
Calling All Spiders! 5 900L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Chemistry: An Introduction to Chemistry 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Chemistry: Atoms & Molecules 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Chemistry: Careers in Chemistry 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Children in the Shadows 5 1050L Sequence
Children of the Storm 5 1040L Cause and Effect
Christianity - Christmas and Easter 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Christianity - Constantine 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Christianity - The Apostle's Creed 5 Non-Prose Multiple Skill & Strategy
Christianity - The Last Supper 5 740L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Classical Music - Johann Sebastian Bach 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Classical Music - Ludwig Van Beethoven 5 660L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Classical Music - What is Classical Music? 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Classical Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 5 710L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Climbing the Walls 5 750L Predicting
Cloned Canine 5 940L Figurative Language
Cool Cats 5 830L Voice
Cool Cats 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Cool Prize 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Crisis in Africa 5 1000L Cause and Effect
Crisis in Africa 5 1000L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Cross Train Your Way to Fitness 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Dance Fever 5 1110L Genre
Day of Infamy 5 890L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Dear Mr. President 5 970L Cause and Effect
Digging Deeper 5 1200L Vocabulary in Context
Digging for Nazi Gold 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Diving into History 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Do Animals Have Feelings? 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Dream Machines 5 940L Classify and Categorize
Earth Science - Earthquakes 5 710L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - Floods 5 720L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - Hurricanes 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - Pangaea 5 900L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - The Weather 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - Tornadoes 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Earth Science - Volcanoes 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Endangered Animals at a Glance 5 980L Cause and Effect
Eyewitness to History: Children of War 5 850L Theme
Eyewitness to History: Grandma was a Protester 5 870L Voice
Eyewitness to History: I'm American No Matter What 5 740L Theme
Famous Scientists & Mathematicians - Albert Einstein 5 720L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Scientists & Mathematicians - Louis Pasteur 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Scientists & Mathematicians - Sigmund Freud 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Amelia Earhart Presumed Dead, Mystery Unsolved 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - An Interview with Golda Meir 5 700L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Entry from the Diary of Catherine the Great of Russia 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Jackie Joyner-Kersee Reaches for the Stars 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Letter from the Chamber of St. Joan of Arc 5 810L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Queen Elizabeth 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Selections from the Journal of William Clark 5 800L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Speech by Susan B. Anthony – February 28, 1906 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Speech for Nobel Prize Winner Mother Teresa 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Famous Women - Speech Honoring Marie Curie 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Fat and Fed Up 5 890L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Finger Food 5 950L Drawing Conclusions
Focus: Understanding How the Brain Works 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Food for Thought 5 920L Fact and Opinion
Go Outside and Play! 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Goodbye to Lice 5 1020L Author's Purpose
Great Wall Great Jump 5 1010L Drawing Conclusions
Green Machines 5 940L Drawing Conclusions
Growing Up in Darfur 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Harry's Magical Spell 5 820L Fact and Opinion
Healing Paws 5 980L Main Idea
Honest Abe's Museum 5 910L Genre
Hot for Hybrids 5 1060L Vocabulary in Context
Hot Tips 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
How to Overcome Shyness 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
If 5 Non-Prose Theme
Islam - Islamic Scholarship 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Islam - The Principles of Islam 5 760L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Islam - The Spread of Islam 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
It Feels Good to Laugh 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Johnny's First Job 5 620L Setting
Judaism - Hanukkah 5 770L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Judaism - My Friend Rebecca 5 780L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Judaism - Passover 5 980L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Judaism - The Three Branches of Judaism 5 930L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Judaism - Yom Kippur 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Juiced 5 1040L Main Idea
Leaping Lemurs! 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Leaping Lizards 5 1050L Main Idea
Letter from Camp 5 370L Setting
Life Under the Nazis 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Lights Out 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Long Live the Vikings 5 1090L Vocabulary in Context
Looking for Ancient Treasure 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Mammouth Fossil Found 5 860L Main Idea
Marathon Kids 5 830L Main Idea
Massive Monument 5 930L Character
Meet a Soldier 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Meet the Microbes 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Menacing Meningitis 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Mission Pluto 5 1110L Explicit Information
News Debate - Snowed Out! 5 940L Multiple Skill & Strategy
News Debate Out Of Touch 5 1160L Genre
News Debate Tough Cell 5 1060L Fact and Opinion
No Snow Required 5 850L Explicit Information
No Way Out 5 390L Setting
North America - A Canadian Joke 5 660L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Comparing Data from Different Countries Around the World 5 Non-Prose Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Cuba, the Cold War, and the Crisis of the Century 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Dear Pen Pal 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Erik the Red and the World’s Largest Island 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Jamaica: A Beautiful Island with a Dark History 5 810L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - North American Diversity 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - The Continent of North America 5 910L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - The Mexican War of Independence 5 740L Multiple Skill & Strategy
North America - Things You Should Know About Mexico 5 590L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Nothing Left to Lose 5 970L Compare and Contrast
Oh No! Volcano 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Old Time Operations 5 970L Sequence
On Hallowed Ground 5 1040L Fact and Opinion
On Hallowed Ground 5 1040L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Once Upon a Time 5 940L Author's Purpose
Osceola's Last Stand 5 1240L Compare and Contrast
Paradise Lost 5 940L Drawing Conclusions
Pet Cemetery 5 1170L Vocabulary in Context
Pitcher Perfect 5 1030L Character
Place in Space 5 620L Predicting
Play Ball! 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Protecting the Platypus 5 930L Character
Protecting the Platypus 5 930L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Pumping Up the Heart 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Ready to Rumble 5 960L Classify and Categorize
Reef Rescue 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Remembering A Forgotten President 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Right On 5 960L Fact and Opinion
Rise Up 5 920L Multiple Skill & Strategy
School Colors 5 960L Voice
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - Background to the Civil War 5 670L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - Reconstruction 5 720L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Election of 1860 and Abraham Lincoln 5 750L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Emancipation Proclamation 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Generals of the Civil War 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Massachusetts 54th Infantry 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, Civil War & Reconstruction - The Underground Railroad 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction - Fort Sumter and the First Shots of the Civil War 5 740L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction - Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address 5 1060L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction - Slavery in the Territories 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Slavery, the Civil War & Reconstruction - Surrender at Appomattox 5 970L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Solar Solo 5 900L Explicit Information
Star Power 5 1140L Character
Star Spangled Relic 5 1000L Drawing Conclusions
Stopping the Spread 5 1060L Sequence
Storm Warning 5 830L Predicting
Superstars of Science 5 800L Classify and Categorize
Talk About Dense 5 880L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Taste This 5 490L Predicting
The Boy and a Wish 5 610L Genre
The Boy Who Cried Wolf 5 610L Plot
The British are Coming! 5 700L Genre, Setting, Vocabulary in Context
The British are Coming! 5 700L Setting
The Dawn of the Mayas 5 1070L Classify and Categorize
The Final Deployment 5 Non-Prose Figurative Language
The Holocaust 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Holocaust - Anne Frank 5 840L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Holocaust - Concentration Camps & Extermination Camps 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Holocaust - Denmark: Resistance from Nazi Germany 5 810L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Homework Hubbub 5 1000L Compare and Contrast
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Returns 5 910L Author's Purpose
The King of Bling 5 1100L Vocabulary in Context
The Koala Search 5 1060L Predicting
The Koala Search 5 1060L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Life of a Cat 5 600L Theme
The Scavenger Hunt 5 820L Plot
The Scientific Method 5 600L Sequence
The Shocking Truth 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
The Year was 1972 5 790L Genre, Setting, Vocabulary in Context
Thirty Minutes Alone 5 530L Plot
To the Moon And Back 5 950L Figurative Language
Twins' Luck 5 720L Theme
Vanishing Vultures 5 1090L Author's Purpose
Welcome Home 5 630L Setting
Welcome Home 5 630L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - Introduction to Westward Expansion 5 750L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The California Gold Rush 5 660L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Erie Canal 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Oregon Trail 5 690L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Pony Express 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Story of the Alamo 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Trail of Tears 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The Transcontinental Railroad 5 720L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - The West, An American Symbol 5 600L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Westward Expansion - Westward Expansion Timeline 5 Non-Prose Multiple Skill & Strategy
What's Cooking 5 730L Classify and Categorize
What's Inside 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Where the Bison Roam 5 890L Explicit Information
Who Are We? 5 870L Multiple Skill & Strategy
Wold War Two - Introduction to WWII 5 690L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I & The Great Depression - Excerpts from Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 1150L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I & the Great Depression - Robert Lindsay Mackay's First World War Diary 5 710L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I & The Great Depression - The Great Depression 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I & the Great Depression - The League of Nations 5 950L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I & the Great Depression - World War I Basics 5 770L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I - Events After the Assassination of the Archduke of Austria 5 770L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I - The Assassination of the Archduke of Austria 5 730L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War I - The Sinking of the Lusitania and Submarine Warfare 5 830L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - A Victory in Africa 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - D-Day 5 610L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - Hiroshima 5 850L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - Pearl Harbor 5 820L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - President Roosevelt Addresses Congress 5 1240L Multiple Skill & Strategy
World War Two - The Atomic Bomb 5 800L Multiple Skill & Strategy
WWI & the Great Depression – Trench Warfare and the Battle of the Somme 5 790L Multiple Skill & Strategy
You Can Do It 5 860L Multiple Skill & Strategy
“The Ant and the Cricket” Retold 5 500L Theme
“The Lion and The Mouse” Retold 5 830L Cause and Effect, Character, Plot, Theme

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