Grade 8 Reading passage
Ashgrove's Stormwater Fee: Paying for the Rain That Runs Off
A grade 8 civics passage on how one city used a stormwater fee and green infrastructure to cut sewer overflows, with questions on policy and fairness.
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Grade 12 Reading passage
Reading the Sewer: How Hensford Tracks Illness Through Wastewater
A grade 12 health passage on wastewater surveillance in a fictional town, with a data table and questions on early warning, rain dilution, privacy, and handwashing.
Grade 8 Reading passage
Why Coach Ibarra Moved Practice: Sweat, Humidity, and Heat
A passage about a fictional cross country team explains how sweat cools only when it evaporates, why humidity slows that, and the warning signs of heat illness.
Grade 10 Reading passage
Reading the Sludge: A Process Control Analyst at Lundbrook
A grade 10 careers reading passage following a process control analyst through the settleability test, the microscope exam, and the wasting decision at a fictional plant.
Grade 10 Reading passage
Upstream of the Intake: Ravensholt's Source Water Work
A grade 10 careers reading passage on a source water protection coordinator who works miles upstream of the plant, with buffers, cover crop payments, and spill maps.
Grade 12 Reading passage
The Instrumentation Technician at Arrowmere Water Treatment Plant
A grade 12 careers reading passage on the instrumentation and control technician role at a fictional treatment plant, with seven comprehension and inference questions.
Grade 9 Reading passage
Dunmoss Wellfield: A Groundwater Technician's Morning Route
A grade 9 careers reading passage following a fictional wellfield technician through water-level soundings, a sampling procedure, and the exception that voids a reading.
Grade 6 Reading passage
What Lives Under Wrenmere Creek's Gravel Bed
A grade 6 science reading passage on the water that moves through a creek's gravel bed, with fictional monitoring data and six comprehension questions.
Grade 1 Reading passage
The Muddy Ditch Behind Corbridge School: A Grade 1 Read-Aloud
A read-aloud about what roots do: Room 1 learns why a dug-up hill sends mud downstream, spreads straw and grass seed on it, and compares two jars.