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