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