Skill Sharpeners: Reading (Grade 4)

Skill Sharpeners: Reading contains engaging full-color stories followed by activity pages that practice a variety of reading skills. Skill Sharpeners: Reading is designed to help children improve their reading skills.

Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 4 provides 16 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories, for example

- Fiction Stories

-- Dick Whittington and His Wonderful Cat

-- The Three Sillies 

-- An Oregon Trail Diary

- Nonfiction Stories

-- Penguins, Pelicans, and Puffins

-- Grandma Moses

-- Go Fly a Kite                                     

- Activity pages include

-- comprehension questions

-- a vocabulary exercise

-- a sequencing activity for every story

- Other skills addressed include

-- main idea

-- parts of speech

-- synonyms & antonyms

-- alphabetical order

-- contractions

-- prefixes and suffixes

An answer key is included.