Format: The teacher’s edition e-book contains the same content as the print version, but provides you with additional digital tools to customize and mark up the pages. Student pages can be projected or printed.
Help your students improve their reading comprehension with this focused approach! Reading Comprehension Fundamentals provides you tools to target the reading skills and strategies with which students need the most help. The 35 skill-based units include fiction and nonfiction texts, a variety of practice activities, and a unit review.
The comprehensive units guide students to develop a deep understanding of each skill, strategy, and genre introduced with a simple “teach, practice, and assess” approach. Ample reading experiences and varied response formats help to improve students’ overall comprehension and test-taking skills.
| Sixth Grade Comprehension Activities for Nonfiction Texts | Sixth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts |
| · Main Idea and Details | · Character |
| · Text Features and Visual Information | · Setting |
| · Description | · Plot |
| · Cause and Effect | · Theme |
| · Compare and Contrast | · Point of View |
| · Sequence | · Predict |
| · Problem and Solution | · Vocabulary |
| · Predict | · Foreshadowing |
| · Vocabulary | · Summarize |
| · Summarize | · Make Inferences |
| · Fact and Opinion | · Cause and Effect |
| · Make Inferences | · Compare and Contrast |
| · Author’s Purpose | · Dialogue |
| · Idioms |
| · Symbolism |
Nonfiction genre studies include expository nonfiction, persuasive nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, and descriptive nonfiction. Fiction genre studies include historical fiction, realistic fiction, and myths.
Use
Reading Comprehension Fundamentals as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students’ needs.
Better together!
Reading Comprehension Fundamentals complements the skill practice presented in
Daily Reading Comprehension.
