Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6

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.