Reading
Read it for real — then prove you got it by teaching it back. If you can retell it and explain the why, you truly understand it.
What you'll teach · pick a grade
5 knowledge points in Grade 3
Main Idea and DetailsExplain the one big point a text is making and how the small details work to back it up.Teach it →The Lesson of a StoryExplain how a story can teach a lesson about life, and how to find the moral hiding in what happens.Teach it →Folktales and FablesExplain what folktales and fables are — old stories passed down, often with talking animals that teach a moral.Teach it →Cause and Effect in StoriesExplain how one event in a story makes another one happen, like falling dominoes.Teach it →Context CluesExplain how to figure out a brand-new word by using the words and sentences around it as clues.Teach it →
The road ahead · grade ladder
Pick a grade · difficulty climbs 1 → 12
Reading level · Lexile®
Grade 6Middle school📊 Lexile® 925L–1070L
Middle-grade classics · plot structure · making inferences from text