Build strong reading comprehension skills with leveled fiction stories and comprehension activities! Engage sixth-grade students in high-quality reading comprehension lessons that include nine fiction genres, reading selections and dictionaries, oral discussions, comprehension activities, literary analysis activities, and writing prompt activities.
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
Evan-Moor's Reading Comprehension: Fiction is an ideal classroom and homeschool teaching resource to develop reading skills!
Revised edition! This resource replaces Reading Literary Text and includes updates to the content.
