Skill Sharpeners Reading, Grade 5 provides 12 motivating fiction and nonfiction stories. For example: Fiction Stories: "The Tiger and the Jackals", "Old Bragwynn the Pirate", "How Shalbus Egbert Bested the Bear", Nonfiction Stories: "Tracking Tornadoes", "Silkworms", "Joy Adamson: Living with Lions". Activity pages include: comprehension questions, a vocabulary exercise for every story, Other skills addressed include the following: critical thinking, interpreting graphic information, reading with expression, analyzing characters. Parents have a wonderful opportunity to support what happens in the classroom, inspiring their child's desire to learn. Skill Sharpeners Reading series is perfect for practice at home. The content is written by teachers and addresses the five essential components of reading instruction as identified in the No Child Left Behind Act. The five essential components of reading instruction addressed are: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Fluency. Skill Sharpeners Reading contains both fiction and nonfiction stories. The stories at each grade level get progressively more difficult, providing challenge as the child gains in reading skills over a period of time. Parents can purchase this series and know that their child is getting reading practice that is grade appropriate.