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CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the definitions, choose to have the text read aloud, and have chosen text translated. The following text is a first-hand account from a 16-year-old Syrian girl named Amira detailing the past three years of her life in a refugee camp. [Free account registration required for specific tools.]
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Classroom Considerations
- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
- The intended use for this resource is Practice