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 Include:
Main Idea and Details
Text Features and Visual Information
Description
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Sequence
Problem and Solution
Predict
Vocabulary
Summarize
Fact and Opinion
Make Inferences
Author's Purpose
Sixth Grade Comprehension Activities for Fiction Texts Include:
Character
Setting
Plot
Theme
Point of View
Foreshadowing
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 myth.
Use
as a core standards-aligned reading resource or select the units that align with your curriculum and with your students' needs.
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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