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Hi folks,
I was wondering if folks on the forum have any suggestions for reading comprehension material at about 5/6th grade.
DD8 has been working on the Reading Detective series from the Critical Thinking Company- very good material and inference and real comprehension requiring questions to be answered thereafter.
We are done with the book but I want to keep her at this level for some more time..looking for resources/workbooks that have passages and questions at the 5/6th grade level.
Thanks in advance.

Have you seen the Lexile Framework for Reading website? It's a free site that allows you to search for books at a particular grade level as well as searching for subject matter/style (science, romance, history, children's book award winners, etc.):

http://www.lexile.com/findabook/StudentInfo.aspx

I don't know if the list is limited to only one publisher's books. It's possible. But the site at least gives you a good place to start looking. It's where I start most of my book searches, even before I hit my local library.

I don't know if you can find books with comprehension questions using this site, but I rather doubt it. I don't think there's any way to specify that. Some editions of a book will include questions and other editions of the same book will not. It's pretty hit or miss (mostly miss!).

One way around this is to read the books together and discuss them, asking your own comprehension questions. This is what we do, since books that come with questions are so few and far between.

Maybe that helps?

Thanks Kirston,
Certainly does help. I will be sure to check it out.

The passage+questions method works pretty well for time-starved (who isnt!) folks like me I suppose.

I was wondering if you/anyone else on the forum has an opinion on the reading material from singaporemath.com...
We tried Specturum reading series as well -that seemed to have a fair share of direct questions but none for high-order comprehension such as ones requiring inference etc.
Regards,

Have you looked at these books? Suppose the Wolf Were an Octopus

the questions are based on Bloom's Taxonomy (the old one not the newly revised one but the same just the wording is a bit different). If you check out these books at Amazon I think it has a peek inside. I only have the first two books. There are 2-3 questions for each level of Bloom Taxonomy.

Here's a website that lets you find books by grade level, genre, etc. and then has quizzes about the book. The kids can earn prizes through taking the quizzes. I haven't looked at the quizzes yet so they might not be more than just basic comprehension. But, it is a good site for checking out reading levels. You can even keep a "want to read" list. We'll probaby do that so we can pick things up at the library.

www.bookadventure.org

Sorry, I thought it would make a link but I guess I don't know how to do that.

Okay, so it did make it a link when I posted.

Sorry, but we haven't tried anything but the math from Singapore. In fact, we don't use any canned reading curriculum whatsoever because the library is free and easy and makes it very easy to shift gears when we want to.

(And, I must confess that as I once taught college English, I think I'd feel as if I were cheating if I used someone else's course to teach my 6yo. That much I ought to be able to handle on my own! Tee-hee-hee!)