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Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week Kelly recognizes that part of the reason his students struggle with reading is because they lack prior knowledge and background. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build his students’ prior knowledge, he assigns them an Article of the Week every Monday morning.
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ReadWorks.org: The Solution to Reading Comprehension
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Reading Passages
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About the Question Sets
About ReadWorks
New! COMMONLIT is a free digital collection of fiction and nonfiction for use in classrooms.
Search and filter by lexile, grade, theme, genre, literary device, or common core standard.
NEWSELA Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly.
Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing.
Every Article At 5 Levels
Newsela makes it easy for an entire class to read the same content, but at a level that’s just right for each student.
War and Peace Science Kids Money Law Health Arts Sports
The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.
150 Great Articles and Essays The best articles of all time -- The best essays of all time
150 short articles & short essays --- Organized by Topics
Life and Death Health and Medicine Short Memoirs
Science and Technology Food Word
The Environment Cities 9/11 Animals
Psychology Happiness Love and Relationships Growing Up
Success and Failure Money Politics
Travel War Women Sport Music History Arts and Culture Men
Computers The Internet Language and Linguistics
Words and Writing Education Crime and Punishment Race
Kelly Gallagher's Article of the Week Kelly recognizes that part of the reason his students struggle with reading is because they lack prior knowledge and background. They can decode the words, but the words remain meaningless without a foundation of knowledge. To help build his students’ prior knowledge, he assigns them an Article of the Week every Monday morning.
Articles Kelly assigned in 2014-15
Archive of Articles from 2013-14
Additional Mentor Texts
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
NPR.org 'This I Believe' Series
This I Believe in print
Rick Riley (ESPN) Articles
Leonard Pitts, Jr. (Miami Herald) articles
Up Front Magazine -- Yes/No Arguments on back page
ProCon.org Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues -- Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
Scholastic NewYorkTimes UpFront Magazine
100 Photographs that Changed the World - LIFE print version
Harper's Index (statistical data)