Skill Sharpeners Reading Grade 5, Paperback/Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Skill 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