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

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