Read Works

readworks.org provides a wonderful resource of reading material to use at your child's reading level! It is a non-profit for K-12 Teachers for Teaching Reading Comprehension; has the largest, highest quality library of curated nonfiction and lit. reading passages; reading comprehension and vocabulary activities; formative assessment, and teacher guidance.

--1,000s of passages on topics from science to history to art

--No assessments - just reading for the joy of learning

--Recommendations for ReadWorks (interests; what they have enjoyed reading; what other students are reading)

Research shows gaps in comprehension are gaps in knowledge, not skills, so read widely and on a variety of topics. Read on the same topic for a week. Write 1 or 2 things learned from anything. Record self on what learned.