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