Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 6+ provides 12 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories: - "Hercules and the Many-Headed Hydra" - "A Clever Jester Fools a King" - "The Sausage" Nonfiction Stories: - "The Terra Cotta Warriors: An Army of Clay" - "Animal Partnerships" - "Deborah Sampson, Revolutionary Soldier" Activity pages include: - comprehension questions - a vocabulary exercise for every story Other skills addressed include the following: - critical thinking - interpreting graphic information - using a dictionary - summarizing

History Pockets-Ancient Greece, Grades 4-6, contains nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the civilization. The other pockets give a comprehensive view of life in ancient Greece. Each of the pockets contains: - a reproducible pocket label - a bookmark of short, fun facts about the subject - an art reference page - a fact sheet of background information for teacher and students - arts and crafts projects - writing activities Evaluation forms are provided at the end of the book for teacher and student assessment purposes. The book includes the following...

Grammar and Punctuation, Grade 5 provides rule charts and practice pages for these grammar and punctuation skills: - kinds of sentences - subjects and predicates - compound sentences - common and proper nouns - singular and plural nouns - verb tenses - pronouns and antecedents - possessive nouns and pronouns - adjectives - comparative and superlative adjectives - adverbs - prepositions - comma usage - quotation marks - tricky word usage