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