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Stories for Students

On this page, we’ve included links to the Feature Stories from all the issues of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. Versions of the texts are available at the K-2 and 3-5 grade bands. The Flesch-Kincaid reading level of each version is provided following the text. Each version is available as a text document and a full-color illustrated book (downloadable PDF documents) that you can print, copy, and use with your students as well as an electronic book with recorded narration. The two reading levels can help you differentiate instruction for your students.

Feature Story from Issue 1: The Seasons and the Sun

Feature Story from Issue 2: All About Earth’s Climate

Feature Story from Issue 3: Plants Need the Perfect Place

Feature Story from Issue 4: Can You Read a Tree?

Feature Story from Issue 5: How Do We Study Climate?

Feature Story from Issue 6: Life in the Greenhouse

Feature Story from Issue 7: People of the Whale