Reading Comprehension: Nonfiction, Grade 6 Teacher Resource

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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