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