Reading practice
Grade 6 reading comprehension
Read a passage, answer the questions, and see why each answer is right. Your Grade 6 reading score climbs with every passage.
Skills practised: Author's purpose · Cause and effect · Character traits · Compare and contrast · Data · Details · Evidence · Inference · Main idea · Read a schedule · Read a table · Read a timeline · Sequence · Text features · Text structure · Timeline math · Vocabulary
Nonfiction
- Built For Survival: the Polar BearDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Red-Eyed Tree FrogDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Monarch ButterflyDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Bald EagleDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the HummingbirdDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Arctic FoxDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the OctopusDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the Sea TurtleDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the SalmonDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the ScorpionDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the KiwiDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the HedgehogDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Built For Survival: the PlatypusDetails, Cause and effect, Main idea
- Mars: the Fourth PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
- Neptune: the Eighth PlanetDetails, Cause and effect, Vocabulary
Compare two texts
- Two Ways to Survive: the Walrus and the MooseCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Gorilla and the SlothCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the African Elephant and the KangarooCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
- Two Ways to Survive: the Bengal Tiger and the HedgehogCompare and contrast, Details, Main idea
Biographies
- George Washington Carver: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Alexander Graham Bell: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Katherine Johnson: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Mae Jemison: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Wangari Maathai: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Ernest Rutherford: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Kalpana Chawla: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Mary Anning: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
- Allan Cormack: a Life in ScienceSequence, Details, Timeline math
Read a timeline
- Timeline: Alexander Graham BellRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Mae JemisonRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Ernest RutherfordRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
- Timeline: Mary AnningRead a timeline, Timeline math, Text features
Read a table
- Books Read By the Reading ClubRead a table, Data, Text features
- Birds Counted At the FeederRead a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of Asia 2Read a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of Europe 1Read a table, Data, Text features
- Countries of Oceania 1Read a table, Data, Text features
- Chemical Elements 1–6Read a table, Vocabulary, Text features
- Chemical Elements 19–24Read a table, Vocabulary, Text features
Timetable
- Bus Timetable 4Read a schedule, Inference, Text features