Welcome to Reading Skills 6B Science. This app presents twelve high-interest passages with stories and information about math topics at the sixth-eighth grade reading level. Each passage is followed by three activities to help readers strengthen their reading skills.

Reading Skills 6A

Engaging Content

How do magnets work? What is a calorie? How does hearing work? These are just a few of the fascinating topics presented in the reading passages for this app.

As students work with this educational app they will improve and strengthen their reading skills. Each high-interest reading passage about science has follow-up activities to help build vocabulary and enhance comprehension.

Using Reading Skills 6B provides three follow-up activities for each of the 12 passages:

• Word Fun - is a word game where a clue is given along with the scrambled letters of a vocabulary word from the passage. The challenge for the student is to unscramble the letters to spell the word.
• Fact Check - is a activity designed to help improve recall and comprehension. When doing this activity students will read a statement and tap either True or False based on the facts presented in the passage.
• Skills Practice - is a activity where questions based on the selected passage is presented. Students demonstrate their reading comprehension skills by answering multiple choice questions.

• High-Interest Content about Math Related Topics
• Interactive Activities to Build and Reinforce Reading Skills
• Supports Common Core Reading Objectives
• Focuses on Learning by Doing Strategies
• Engaging Reading Activities Presented in an Open-ended Learning Environment
• On/Off Options and Controls for Various Features

Improve Reading Skills

Reading Skills 6B is designed to help develop and improve reading skills. Using simple gestures students move from one reading activity to another. By either dragging letter tiles or tapping the screen, students improve vocabulary and spelling, demonstrate their ability to recognize the main idea and supporting details. The practice summarizing reading material and in general practice a variety of skills essential for reading comprehension.

The Fact Check activity presents a statement based on the content of the selected reading passage. Students indicate either True or False for the statement by tapping an icon.

Build Vocabulary and Spelling Skills

Students enjoy games. Word Fun is an activity where students unscramble letter tiles to spell the a vocabulary word taken from the reading passage.

• Slide letter tiles to spell vocabulary words.
• Complete the activity by earning 10 gold stars
• Vocabulary words are pronounced.

Comprehension

The Skills Practice activity focuses on a variety of reading skills including finding the main idea, locating supporting details, and determining the author's purpose.

Titles

Understanding informational text is essential to literacy. To help young readers develop this skill, twelve fun, high-interest passages about science including important discoveries, how cells work, what is the structure of the earth and more, written at the sixth grade reading level, are presented:

• Mendel's Genetics
• Why is the Ocean Salty?
• Fruit or Vegetable?
• Rayleigh Scattering
• How Do Magnets Work?
• The Earth's Layers
• How Does Hail Form?
• What is a Calorie?
• Where are the Monarchs?
• Structure of a Cell?
• Hearing and Sound Waves
• Simple Machines?

Scoreboard

Teachers can use the Scoreboard feature to keep track of student performance as they work their way through all the passages and activities.