Download or read book Skill Sharpeners: Reading, Grade 5 Workbook written by Evan-Moor Corporation and published by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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