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

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