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Passage Grade Lexile Level Skill/Strategy
City of Broken Records 6 970L Main Idea
Heavy Metal 6 1080L Main Idea
New Lives for Old Buses 6 1020L Main Idea
News Shorts Tomb Raiders 6 980L Main Idea
Pete vs. the Python 6 1120L Main Idea

We highly recommend using ReadWorks non-fiction reading passages & question sets for BOTH read aloud instruction AND independent student reading.

Therefore the text complexity of passages varies within each grade and across all grades, as reflected in the Lexile levels.

Research shows that exposing students to more complex text through read aloud is vital to increasing vocabulary & background knowledge, and supportive of independent reading. 

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