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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Igniting young minds to help every child learn and succeed!
Evan-Moor creates engaging and meaningful learning resources for children in grades PreK-8. Trusted by parents and teachers for over 45 years, Evan-Moor's award-winning resources are thoughtfully developed to nurture children's hearts and minds to help them reach their full potential.