Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6

Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage sixth grade students in high quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more. Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your sixth grade students! Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text

Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities! Engage sixth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include texts with a variety of text structures, dictionaries, comprehension activities, writing prompt activities, and more.

Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your sixth-grade students!

Choose from 10 units that span a variety of text structures and topics or use them all!

Text structures include:
• Question and answer
• Main idea and details
• Cause and effect
• Compare and contrast
• Time order

Nonfiction texts in the grade 6 book include a variety of content-area topics:

Science:
• "The Force of Magnetism" Level V
• "Food Webs in Ecosystems" Level X
• "Genes for Survival" Level Y

Social Studies:
• "Comparing Rights and Responsibilities" Level X
• "Ancient Economies" Level Y

Biography:
• "Phillis Wheatley: Antislavery Poet" Level V
• "Colin Powell: An American Leader" Level W

How-to:
• "How to Grow a Container Garden" Level V
• "How to Evaluate Online Sources" Level W
• "How to Reuse Items and Reduce Waste" Level X

Each unit includes:
• Teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective
• A dictionary that identifies content and academic vocabulary
• A close-reading activity
• A comprehension and vocabulary activity
• An oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion
• A text structure analysis activity
• A culminating text-based writing activity

Additional teacher resources:
• Overview article and writing prompts chart
• Five elements of nonfiction text chart
• Five structures of nonfiction text
• An answer key

Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Informational Text and includes updates to the content. Recommended age 11 years