Reading Comprehension: Fiction Grade 6

Teach reading comprehension skills and fiction genre study to your sixth-grade students!

Choose from nine units that span fiction genres or use them all!

• Science fiction
• Realistic fiction
• Poetry
• Adventure fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fable

Each unit includes:

• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• One or two leveled reading selections with illustrations
• Story dictionary with topic vocabulary and academic vocabulary
• Close reading activities, comprehension activities, and vocabulary activities
• Oral close reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• Genre study activity and literary analysis activity
• Writing prompt activity

Additional teacher resources:

• Comprehensive vocabulary definitions
• ＂How to Be a Good Reader＂ resource page for students
• Literary genres chart
• Literary elements and techniques chart
• Overview of texts that includes the reading level, genre, and literary element or story structure

The illustrated reading selections in the grade 6 book are:

• Science Fiction: ＂My Unusual Saturday,＂ Level V
• Realistic Fiction: ＂Two Thoughtful Gifts,＂ Level V
• Poetry: ＂The New Vestments,＂ Level V
• Adventure Fiction: ＂Hanging Out with the Bindi-Way Tribe,＂ Level W
• Realistic Fiction: ＂Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores,＂ Level W
• Historical Fiction: ＂The Record of One Ancient Egyptian Woman,＂ Level X
• Poetry: ＂The Brook,＂ Level X
• Fable: ＂Notoriety Is Not Fame,＂ Level Y
• Historical Fiction: ＂Jerry and the Grape Boycott,＂ Level Y

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