Reading Comprehension: Paired Text, Grade 6 Teacher Resource

Prepare your students to succeed on state tests! Test-prep made easy! Reading Comprehension: Paired Text grade 6 is an easy-to-use resource that includes 8 paired text units with everything you need to practice reading comprehension skills.

Use Evan-Moor’s grade 6 paired text units to provide students with opportunities to compare multiple viewpoints and to integrate information. Units contain two selections that are focused around an essential question.

Each selection includes:

• vocabulary development in context
• an oral close reading discussion
• comprehension questions
• a writing prompt

The unit assessment includes discussion of the topic, texts, and essential question, as well as a pre-writing graphic organizer and culminating writing prompt.

Additional features:

• student objectives
• topic introductions
• lesson plans

Grade 6 paired text social studies units:

Balancing All Sides:
＂Daniel Inouye: Champion of Equal Rights＂ Level W
＂A Challenge for Everyone＂ Level V

Mapping Our World and Beyond:
＂Cartography in the Modern World＂ Level W
＂Drawing a New Conclusion＂ Level V

Competition for Work:
＂Life During the Great Depression＂ Level X
＂The Three Recruits＂ Level X

Fairness at Work:
＂Out of the Ashes＂ Level Y
＂César Chávez: The Fruits of Labor＂ Level Y

Grade 6 paired text science units:

A Future Without Fuel:
＂The Three Smart Dogs＂ Level V
＂The New-Energy Project＂ Level W

The Sun and Our Health:
＂Getting Along with the Sun＂ Level X
＂A Different Kind of Solar Power＂ Level W

Reading the Weather:
＂Spotlight on...Weather Forecasting＂ Level Y
＂Phil’s Secret＂ Level V

The Science of Sport:
＂What’s Holding You Back?＂ Level Y
＂Balance＂ Level W

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