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.

Key Features:

• Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6 builds strong reading comprehension skills with leveled nonfiction texts and comprehension activities!
• Teaches reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your sixth-grade students!
• Contains nonfiction texts that include a variety of content-area topics.
• Includes teacher support pages with a lesson plan and objective.
• Includes an oral close-reading activity with questions to help guide students in a discussion.

These Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6 in Black, White are ideal for classroom learning and instruction.