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