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Content Language Support

Tap any key word in the passage and a simple picture appears. It is a built-in support that helps new English learners read grade-level text with confidence.

PURPOSE
This page holds the Content Language Support passages for Grades 3, 4, and 5, one for every cluster.
RATIONALE
Each passage is the same grade-level reading the class already uses, with key words a student can tap to see a simple picture. A student still learning English reads the real text alongside classmates.
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE
Scroll to your grade, then open the passage for the cluster you are teaching. Let the student tap any highlighted word to see its picture.
How it works: each passage is the same rich, grade-level reading your class already uses, with the important nouns made tappable. One tap shows a clear picture of the word, so a student who is still learning English can keep up without a separate, watered-down text.
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Third Grade

Content Language Support passages
Prepare Cluster · Modules 1 to 2

The Recess Question

A recess debate becomes a lesson in how a community makes fair decisions. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 1 · Module 1

The Pilgrims Chose Plymouth

The Pilgrims' 1620 voyage and why they settled at Plymouth. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 2 · Module 1

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer life on the American frontier and the writer who shared it. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 3 · Module 1

Why We Need Laws

A rhyming look at why a community writes fair rules and laws. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 4 · Module 1

Benjamin Franklin and Electricity

Benjamin Franklin, the lightning rod, and solving real problems with science. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 5 · Module 1

Henry Ford: Visionary of Travel

How the Model T and the moving assembly line changed the way people traveled. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 6 · Module 1

Crash

A classroom accident becomes a lesson about honesty and responsibility. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 7 · Module 1

MLK: A Dream Can Grow

A gentle poem about how one hopeful dream can grow from friend to friend. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 8 · Module 1

A Place to Grow

How geography shapes where and how a community is built. Key words are tappable.

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Fourth Grade

Content Language Support passages
Prepare Cluster · Modules 1 to 2

Dream

A child at the 1963 march remembers Dr. King's dream of a fair America. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 1 · Module 1

A Promise Written Long Ago

The Magna Carta of 1215 and why rules must apply even to a king. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 2 · Module 1

The Energy We Use Everyday

Renewable and nonrenewable resources, and the choices behind our energy. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 3 · Module 1

A Lone Star Choice

A poem about how Texas joined the United States in 1845. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 4 · Module 1

The Wealth of Mansa Musa

The Mali kingdom, trade across the Sahara, and a famous pilgrimage. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 5 · Module 1

Looking Back to Move Forward

How Renaissance thinkers looked back to Greece and Rome for new ideas. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 6 · Module 1

A Day That Changed

One shifting field day shows the difference between weather and climate. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 7 · Module 1

The Roads Between Us

A poem about trade routes that carry goods, stories, and friendship. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 8 · Module 1

What Shapes a Society?

How place, resources, and connection shape the societies people build. Key words are tappable.

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Fifth Grade

Content Language Support passages
Prepare Cluster · Modules 1 to 2

The Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery

A missing-cookie mystery teaches a class to gather evidence before believing a story. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 1 · Module 1

From Tension to Revolution

Taxes, protest, and the road from thirteen colonies to a new nation. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 2 · Module 1

Spanish Rule in Early Texas

Missions and presidios, and how Spanish rule shaped early Texas. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 3 · Module 1

Our Rights, Our Voices

A poem walking through the freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 4 · Module 1

The Garden That Wouldn't Grow

Too much water teaches Kendrix how soil, roots, and air keep plants healthy. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 5 · Module 1

A Difficult Compromise

The 1787 Convention and the hard debate over how to count people. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 6 · Module 1

A Voice in the Community

Voting, meetings, and other ways people take part in civic life. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 7 · Module 1

One Voice Can Start a Wave

A poem about how one brave question can grow into lasting change. Key words are tappable.

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Cluster 8 · Module 1

From Protest to Participation

How ideas about freedom and rights become real changes in a nation. Key words are tappable.

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