Ebook Spectrum Reading Grade 6

Excellent Tool for Standardized Test Preparation! • Latin and Greek roots • Figurative language • Reading comprehension • Fact and opinion • Predicting outcomes • Answer key Reading Grade 6 Frank Schaffer Publications® Spectrum is an imprint of Frank Schaffer Publications. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher, unless otherwise indicated. Frank Schaffer Publications is an imprint of School Specialty Publishing. Copyright © 2007 School Specialty Publishing. Send all inquiries to: Frank Schaffer Publications 8720 Orion Place Columbus, Ohio 43240-2111 Spectrum Reading—grade 6 ISBN 0-7696-3866-X 1 2 3 4 5 6 POH 11 10 09 08 07 06 Index of Skills Reading Grade 6 Numerals indicate the exercise pages on which these skills appear. Vocabulary Skills Abbreviations 5, 11, 15, 27, 39, 59, 61, 69, 79, 81, 111 Affixes 3, 9, 21, 29, 35, 51, 59, 65, 71, 77, 89, 95, 109, 111, 117, 123, 125 Antonyms 13, 31, 45, 53, 61, 67, 83, 91, 105, 135, 141 Classification 5, 21, 41, 55, 125, 137, 151 Compound Words 7, 15, 19, 23, 25, 45, 51, 71, 75, 79, 83, 95, 99, 127, 133, 139, 145 Frequently Used Foreign Words 87, 103, 131, 149 Homographs/Multiple Meaning 19, 23, 37, 47, 49, 85, 107, 113, 115, 139, 143 Homophones 11, 19, 31, 43, 47, 57, 75, 87, 99, 107, 117, 123, 133 Idiomatic and Figurative Language 3, 11, 13, 25, 37, 63, 71, 85, 89, 93, 97, 123, 129, 137, 147 Latin and Greek Roots 81, 91, 93, 101, 115, 135, 141, 145, 151 Multisyllabic Words 13, 23, 35, 41, 57, 67, 83, 105, 137 Possessives 17, 27, 43, 49, 55, 63, 73, 93, 119, 131, 143 Sight Vocabulary all activity pages Synonyms 17, 29, 33, 45, 53, 63, 67, 73, 91, 97, 113, 141 Word Meaning from Context all activity pages Reading Skills Author’s Purpose 5, 15, 23, 33, 43, 51, 63, 73, 81, 87, 95, 105, 113, 121, 149 Cause and Effect 3, 5, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 49, 51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63, 67, 69, 73, 75, 79, 81, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99, 107, 109, 111, 117, 119, 123, 125, 131, 137, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151 Character Analysis 11, 29, 37, 47, 61, 79, 83, 103, 115, 119, 141, 151 Comparing and Contrasting 3, 7, 9, 21, 23, 33, 45, 57, 65, 67, 69, 73, 83, 85, 91, 97, 101, 107, 109, 115, 125, 127, 129, 137, 139, 141, 145 Context Clues 3, 9, 17, 27, 35, 43, 45, 65, 69, 85, 99, 105, 125, 129, 149 Spectrum Reading Grade 6 ii Drawing Conclusions 3, 7, 17, 23, 25, 29, 31, 33, 41, 43, 47, 51, 61, 65, 75, 79, 87, 89, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 117, 121, 123, 127, 133, 135, 139, 143, 151 Fact and Opinion 7, 31, 45, 53, 71, 83, 99, 115 Facts and Details all activity pages Fantasy and Reality 39, 57, 125, 143 Formulates Ideas and Opinions 103, 107, 131, 143, 149, 151 Identifying the Theme 85, 141, Main Idea 5, 11, 27, 39, 47, 53, 61, 91, 101, 113, 131 Mood and Tone 19, 25, 71, 101 Persuasive Text 45, 73, 87 Predicting Outcomes 3, 11, 19, 25, 35, 41, 43, 49, 57, 71, 77, 79, 89, 101, 107, 117, 127, 147, 151 Prior Knowledge 15, 17, 45, 61, 107, Purpose for Reading 9, 67, 87, 103, 111, 119, 123, 133, 139 Recognizes Story’s Problem 13, 19, 25, 55, 63, 85, 127 Recognizes Features of Familiar Genres 7, 15, 27, 37, 47, 55, 57, 61, 69, 79, 91, 97, 117, 119, 141, 151 Sequence 5, 15, 19, 27, 39, 51, 59, 75, 77, 89, 93, 127, 137 Shows Comprehension by Identifying Answers in Text all activity pages Summarizing 21, 37, 59, 65, 87, 99, 111, 121, 135 Understand and Identify Simple Literary Terms 13, 25, 31, 41, 43, 49, 71, 75, 83, 85, 93, 97, 109, 115, 117, 123, 127, 133, 143 Study Skills Charts, Graphs, and Maps 5, 75, 101, 147 Dictionary Use 7, 9, 25, 39, 59, 69, 77, 83, 89, 109, 125, 145 Following Directions all activity pages Life-Skills Materials 33, 103, 113, 121, 137 Parts of a Book 15, 87, 129 Reference Materials 41, 55, 65, 95, 127 Index of Skills Table of Contents JBall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Yakyu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Experimental Appetites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bonsai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A Schoolyard Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 A Growing Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 What’s Cooking? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Garden Gourmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 A Shriek in the Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Night Flyers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 A Beacon of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Lighthouse Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Lighthouse on the Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Keeping the Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 A Picture Perfect Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Point and Click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Talking Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The World of Ansel Adams . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Photographing History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Reality Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 An Exotic Dilemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The Everlasting Beauty of the Everglades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 It’s a Bird’s Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 A Bird Excursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Bird Garden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 An Ancient Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 A Trip to the Smithsonian . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Mega-Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Always Have Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Flying into History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 A Move to Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Home, Sweet Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Moving Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Watery Giants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Creatures of the Night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Going Batty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 A Natural Bath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 A Hot Topic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 The Little Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Rolling to Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 The Racing Gloves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 A Reason to Run. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Getting Up to Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 A Mysterious Glow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Living Lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Spectrum Reading Grade 6 A Stinging Surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Curious Creatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Catching a Wave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Wave-Sliding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 The Father of Modern Surfing. . . . . . . . 100 It’s All Academic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Tune in to History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Moving Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 A Reservoir of Memories . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Blocking Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 The Eighth Wonder of the World . . . . . 112 Book Fair Brainstorming . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Book Fair Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 A Writer’s Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 So, You Want to Be a Writer? . . . . . . . . 120 A Lone Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Real Crusoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 A Desert in Bloom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 A Dry, Hot Land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Calling Nowhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 A Paper Surprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Fascinating Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Seeing Differently . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Looking Into the Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Eyes on the Ends of Your Fingers. . . . . 140 The Quarreling Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 An Arc of Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Island Roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 A Slice of Sea Island Life . . . . . . . . . . . 148 The Art of the Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Table of Contents 1 JBall Have you ever been to a baseball game in another country or watched one on television? 1 Alex and Emily Godfrey had been in Japan with their parents for nearly a week. They were there to visit their mother’s old college roommate, who had moved to Japan after college to teach English. She had planned to come home after a few years, but she had fallen in love with the country and with the man who would eventually be her husband. 2 “What’s our plan for the afternoon?” asked Alex after lunch one day. 3 “Well,” said Mr. Ito, “we have tickets for a 4:00 baseball game. How does that sound?” 4 “I had no idea baseball was popular in Japan,” replied Alex. 5 “Dad takes us to professional games a few times a year at home,” said Emily. “Alex and I keep a list of cities we’ve visited where we have had a chance to go to a game. I had no idea that Tokyo would ever be on our list!” 6 The Itos and the Godfreys prepared for the afternoon’s events. Just a few hours later, they found themselves standing inside the stadium among a crowd of excited fans. 7 “What are the names of the teams that are playing today?” asked Alex, looking around curiously. 8 “The home team is the Yakult Swallows. They will be playing the Hiroshima Toyo Carp,” said Mrs. Ito. “Baseball isn’t my cup of tea, but this promises to be a good game.” 9 The two families found their seats in the bleachers. Alex and Emily grinned as they listened to all the noisemakers around them. Some people were hitting together plastic bats, and others were yelling through megaphones that looked as though they had been hinged together. 10 “Are those cheerleaders?” asked Emily. She was referring to a group of men on the ball field who led the crowd in chants and cheers. 11 Mrs. Ito nodded, “I forget that Americans don’t have cheerleaders for baseball games. It also probably seems unusual that they’re all men. That’s just one of the differences between American and Japanese baseball culture.” 12 Once the game began, Emily and Alex became quickly engrossed. The game itself didn’t seem much different at all from the American baseball games they had attended. They were surprised, though, to see people waving American flags from time to time. 13 Mr. Ito explained, “Japanese teams are each allowed to have three foreign players. When American players come up to bat, their fans show support by waving your country’s flag.” 14 In between innings, Mrs. Ito bought Alex and Emily a snack. Some vendors sold pretzels, popcorn, and hot dogs, but Alex and Emily decided to try one of the Japanese alternatives. With Mrs. Ito’s help, they selected yakisoba, noodles flavored with ginger and soy sauce. 15 At the end of the game, the Godfreys and the Itos piled back into the car to head home. Alex and Emily were tired, but their minds were racing with all they had seen that day. 16 “Did you have a good day, kids?” asked Mrs. Godfrey, turning to Alex and Emily. 17 They nodded. “I wish we could go to JBall games at home, too,” said Emily. “After today, I have a feeling that American baseball may never be quite as interesting again.” Spectrum Reading Grade 6 2 ... - tailieumienphi.vn