Free student texts and teacher resources
Free Classroom Materials
Free student texts and teacher resources
Classroom-proven resources including favorite books, reading passages, vocabulary lessons, word pictures, literacy lists & forms.
Vocabulary Instruction
TextProject provides free resources for the four kinds of vocabulary words that contribute to reading comprehension: core, academic, content-area, and literary.
Free Student Texts
Free texts for reading instruction!
- BeginningReads
- DecodableReads
- TopicReads – Primary
- FYI for Kids
- TopicReads- Middle School
- SummerReads
- Stories of Words
- Talking Points For Kids
- Heroes!
- TeenReads
For programs such as BeginningReaders and FYI for Kids, world-renowned researcher and teacher educator, Patricia Cunningham, has written lessons to accompany the texts.
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