Read and Succeed

Comprehension Level 6 ebook

Debra J Housel

• Publisher: Shell Education
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9781425892180
• Edition: 0

Create confident readers and build students' comprehension with standard-based, targeted activities that guide your sixth graders toward reading success. Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 6 provides 65 high-interest informational and literary texts with focused, standards-based activities that provide targeted practice opportunities. Students will develop critical-thinking skills and essential reading strategies as they pursue these challenging texts. This resource is correlated to College and Career Readiness and other state standards.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Credits
• Page 3 - Table of Contents
• Page 4 - Introduction
• Page 5 - Research Support for the Read and Succeed: Comprehension Series
• Page 6 - Standards Correlations
• Page 7 - McREL Correlations Chart
• Page 8 - Predict (The Price to Play)
• Page 10 - Predict (Double Crush)
• Page 12 - Prior Knowledge (Bird Watching)
• Page 14 - Prior Knowledge (Intruder in Gamba’s Kingdom)
• Page 16 - Set a Purpose (The Heimlich Maneuver)
• Page 18 - Set a Purpose (Mysteriously Mundane)
• Page 20 - Ask Questions (The Great Pacific Garbage Patch)
• Page 22 - Ask Questions (John Barry, Father of the American Navy)
• Page 24 - Make Connections (Alpine Competition)
• Page 26 - Make Connections (Ski Cross)
• Page 28 - Context Clues (Birth of an Island)
• Page 30 - Context Clues (Are Woolly Mammoths and Elephants the Same?)
• Page 32 - Visualize (My Noisy Alarm Clock)
• Page 34 - Visualize (Alexander the Great)
• Page 36 - Conflict and Resolution (Kenny Finds His Muse)
• Page 38 - Conflict and Resolution (The Undead Chipmunks)
• Page 40 - Characters (The Eagle and the Kite)
• Page 42 - Characters (The New Chess Player)
• Page 44 - Literary Devices (Memories from My Childhood)
• Page 46 - Literary Devices (The Waterspout)
• Page 48 - Literary Themes (Cruel Initiation)
• Page 50 - Literary Themes (Toss Me a Line!)
• Page 52 - Title and Headings (The U.S. Census Counts)
• Page 54 - Title and Headings (Leonardo da Vinci)
• Page 56 - Typeface and Captions (The First U.S. President)
• Page 58 - Typeface and Captions (The Interdependence of Life)
• Page 60 - Graphics (Community Newsletter)
• Page 62 - Graphics (Disease)
• Page 64 - Topic Sentences (The Vikings)
• Page 66 - Topic Sentences (Florida)
• Page 68 - Main Idea (The Porpoise Trainer)
• Page 70 - Main Idea (Let’s Get Cooking!)
• Page 72 - Details (Blood Drive at Ellis JH Son January 18)
• Page 74 - Details (The Story That Caused an Uproar)
• Page 76 - Main Idea and Details (Domesticated Rats)
• Page 78 - Main Idea and Details (Falling Leaves)
• Page 80 - Main Idea and Details (Cousins and Best Friends)
• Page 82 - Chronological Order (Sally Ride)
• Page 84 - Chronological Order (Abigail Adams)
• Page 86 - Logical Order (Keep Your Eyes on the Prize)
• Page 88 - Logical Order (Make Your Own Terrarium)
• Page 90 - Fact and Opinion (My New Grandfather)
• Page 92 - Fact and Opinion (Understanding Relative Humidity)
• Page 94 - Proposition and Support (Saving Our National Parks)
• Page 96 - Proposition and Support (Fascinated by Space)
• Page 98 - Author’s Purpose (Spay or Neuter Your Pet!)
• Page 100 - Author’s Purpose (Turning the Tide for Sea Turtles)
• Page 102 - Compare and Contrast (Choosing a College)
• Page 104 - Compare and Contrast (Making Electricity)
• Page 106 - Cause and Effect (Bad Boy Michaels Loses a Fan)
• Page 108 - Cause and Effect (Amusement Park Rides)
• Page 110 - Draw Conclusions (Remember to Lock Up!)
• Page 112 - Draw Conclusions (Mohandas Gandhi)
• Page 114 - Infer (What Goes Up Must Come Down)
• Page 116 - Infer (Accidental Discoveries)
• Page 118 - Summarize (Timing Races)
• Page 120 - Summarize (The Iroquois)
• Page 122 - Paraphrase (African History)
• Page 124 - Paraphrase (Azure Mist Saves the Day)
• Page 126 - Table of Contents (World Cultures Through Time)
• Page 128 - Table of Contents (India)
• Page 130 - Index (Storms)
• Page 132 - Index (Industrial Giants)
• Page 134 - Glossary (Inside Ecosystems)
• Page 136 - Glossary (Earth’s Atmosphere)
• Page 138 - Answer Key
• Page 150 - Contents of the Teacher Resource CD
• Thank You Page