This textbook provides short stories and activities designed for the following skills: Story Problems and Solutions, Figuring Out Words, Getting Word Meaning, Using a Dictionary for Meaning, Story Characters, Using a Dictionary for Pronunciation, Recognizing Fact and Fiction, Using an Encyclopedia, Understanding a Point of View and Flashback, Understanding Idioms, Recognizing Types of Literature, Story Characters and Setting, Main Idea and Supporting Details, Classifying, Making a Summary, Reading for Different Purposes, Sequence Relationships, Reading Diagrams, Varying Reading Rate, Understanding Figures of Speech, and Analogous Relationships.