nSkill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 5 provides 12 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories:
- •The Tiger and the Jackals
- •Old Bragwynn the Pirate
- •How Shalbus Egbert Bested the Bear Nonfiction Stories:
- •Tracking Tornadoes
- •Silkworms
- •Joy Adamson: Living with Lions Activity pages include:
- •comprehension questions
- •a vocabulary exercise for every story Other skills addressed include the following:
- •critical thinking
- •interpreting graphic information
- •reading with expression,
- •analyzing characters