9 free reading resources for 6th Grade, organised by topic with answer sheets, study guides and topic tests.
Reading comprehension is about more than finding the answer in the text. Students need to read literally (what does it say?), inferentially (what does it mean?) and evaluatively (what do I think, and why?). Each passage here comes with questions at all three levels and model answers for the open ones.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Students learn to tell similes (comparisons using "like" or "as") from metaphors (which say one thing is another), explain what figurative…
Students learn that an idiom is a phrase whose meaning is different from the meanings of its words, such as a piece of cake (something…
Students learn that words with similar meanings can carry different feelings, called connotations: determined sounds positive, while…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
Add a prefix to the start of a word and work out how the prefix changes the meaning (un- = not, re- = again, dis- = not, pre- = before,…
A passage with questions.
After a storm, Lena finds a message in a bottle on the beach, and the address inside is one she knows very well. Students track the clues,…
A history text about the Texas longhorn and the great cattle drives that followed the Civil War, when cowboys moved huge herds north on…
A biography of Bessie Coleman, who was born in Texas in 1892 and became the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license, after…
Writing prompts include a model opening and clear success criteria rather than a single 'correct' answer, so parents and teachers can give useful feedback.
Yes. All passages are written by Success Tutoring and checked for age-appropriate vocabulary and sentence length.
