Free Student Texts

Free texts for reading instruction! TextProject is the sole website with free texts based on the science of reading. The TExT model underlying our texts has been validated through scientific research. Texts are available for beginning readers to high school students who need support in automaticity and vocabulary.

For programs such as BeginningReaders and FYI for Kids, world-renowned researcher and teacher educator, Patricia Cunningham, has written lessons to accompany the texts.

Grades K-1

New: TextProject’s Decoding + Knowledge Program. Read more about its scope and sequence here.

TopicReads – Primary

TopicReads-Primary Level A1 Book 1 - Jobs We Do, depicting a young girl wearing a chef's hat and chopping vegetables.

DecodableReads

Research Enhancing Opportunities for Decoding and Knowledge Building through Beginning Texts

BeginningReads™

Beginning Reads

TextProject’s BeginningReads program supports teachers, parents, and tutors in bringing children into reading. The goal of BeginningReads is to connect student’s oral language knowledge with written language. Ten levels (of 12 books each) are available.

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Grades 2-5

FYI for Kids- Magazine articles for second grade through fifth grade

FYI for Kids

A collection of engaging and high-quality magazine articles designed to enhance the Common Core classroom’s reading repertoire.

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SummerReads™

5 children run into the water at the beach

Accessible and engaging texts for summer reading Students who don’t read much over the summer show a decline in reading performance from the end of one grade to the start of the next. Research done at Harvard University by James Kim shows that even reading 4 or 5 books over the summer helps to prevent the summer slump. Having books at home explains how much students read over the summer. Unfortunately, the very students who are struggleRead More »SummerReads™

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Talking Points For Kids

Talking Points For Kids aims to increase discussion amongst students on topics that relate to them. To read about the importance of talking about ideas that matter, take a look at the Frankly Freddy entry: High-Leverage Action #1.

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Middle School

Research When Students Perform at the BelowBasic Level on the NAEP: What Does It Mean and What Can Educators Do?

Stories of Words

Stories of Words aims to develop students’ interest in interesting words (e.g., snickerdoodles, terrapin, scuba).

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TopicReads™ – Middle School

African American middle school student reading a TopicReads text on a laptop

TopicReads is an evidence-based set of texts that support vocabulary, background knowledge, and comprehension for struggling middle-school readers. Texts become progressively harder across the 6 levels, from an emphasis on the 600 most frequent root words at Level A to Level F, where all 2,500 root word families that make up 90% of all the words in texts appear. The texts are available in two formats: downloadable PDFs or online flipbooRead More »TopicReads™ – Middle School

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High School

Heroes

Robotics engineer Ayanna Howard smiles as she works on a robot she is designing for NASA. She is wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, and her hair is done in braids gathered into a ponytail.

Dive into a world of amazing real-life heroes with our new series of inspirational stories for high school students!
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TeenReads™

High interest, accessible texts for high school students. Magazine-format texts dive into fascinating topics that capture teens’ interests while introducing them to core English vocabulary and ideas used in everyday life. See all TeenReads »