180 Days of Reading: Grade 6 - Daily Reading Workbook for Classroom and Home, Reading Comprehension and Phonics Practice, School Level Activities Created by Teachers to Master Challenging Concepts

I love the 180 days workbooks. Use them everyday in homeschool. This one is separated into weeks. Each day of the week has an assignment. Every week has an underlying topic. The first 3 days of the week, they read a short paragraph and answer about 6 multiple choice questions. Day 4, you read a full page and answer more questions than days 1-3, but still doesn't take too long. Day 5 is a written assignment based on Day 4's reading, but usually you can incorporate the whole week. I love the set up. I use 180 Writing as well and have the weeks off set so he isn't writing 2 big paragraphs every Friday. One begins on Thursdays and ends Wednesday, the other is Monday through Friday. This one really is more in line with how they will be expected to do reading comprehension on standardized tests. Even a homeschooler will have to take ACT/SAT, and whatever test for grad school. It's great practice that doesn't take too much time without teaching purely just how to pass tests, and isn't just busy work. The topics range from What is a healthy diet to How TV advertisements work. They also double as great ideas for short mini lessons when I want to teach more on the topic.

My daughter enjoyed this passage book. I used it as an extra book to help her with her reading because she was having issues with understand what she was reading. This book really did help her , it gives u question to answer. She has a few more pages and she will have completed the whole book

I tried a few different practice books with my 5th grader and I think this one has the best balance. The 180 day of reading series organizes reading practices by week. On Monday to Thursday, each day has a reading paragraph with multiple choice questions. On Friday it is writing response. The multiple choice questions varies in difficulties and type. It covers grammar, word meaning and comprehension skills. It also actually has 180 pages, which means if you only ask your kid to do 5 pages a week, it will keep them busy all year long.

I am a certified teacher who now homeschools. I use this book everyday, but we don’t complete the writing prompts. I like that the kids receive daily practice in reading and they learn to refer back to the reading passage when answering the questions, something that students seem to resist doing even though it’s perfectly acceptable and necessary in school and in life to go back and reread if necessary (as long as you’re not instructed not to do that in class or on a test).The book has helped me assess the areas where my children might need extra reinforcement and reteaching on a concept. For example, if we’ve studied prepositional phrases earlier in the year and I see that a child has missed a question asking him to identify the prepositional phrase in a sentence, I know to go back and review prepositional phrases with him (or at least ask some questions to see how well he understands that concept). I also like the variety of interesting topics and that students are reading an assortment of fiction and nonfiction throughout the year.I did give up on the writing prompts, though. The questions are too direct and often, it seems to me, could be answered in a sentence or two. They don’t set the stage for the student to feel that they can expand on the topic.I would say this book is a great component of a language arts program, but isn’t all that I use. It’s a solid part of our everyday work, but I add it to a variety of resources for a complete curriculum.I do love that there is a CD in the back of the book to print the pages off and the book allows teachers to copy for their classrooms. I have my kids write their answers in an English notebook so we don’t mark up the book, but I also have occasionally printed the passages out from the CD. That is so much easier than trying to photocopy a page from the book. Teachers out there will find it much easier to use the CD when copying for their classrooms.

As a retired educator I found this to be the best reading comprehension book I have ever used. What I liked best about the book is that each week starts with a theme/specific subject and focuses on it for four days, and then on the fifth day there is a writing prompt that allows students to write about the topic that they have been reading about all week. It's a wonderful tool for students who are struggling with reading comp.

My daughter really enjoys this book, and all of the 180 days of books. She’s definitely learning new things, and it’s not an overwhelming amount of work. We homeschool and have added this entire set this year and I’m happy we did.

I am a second year homeschooler and was looking for something that would strengthen my son's comprehension skills, but not be terribly overwhelming. I love the format. It is three days of short passages and inference questions, followed by a fourth day of longer passage. The fifth day is a writing exercise based on the passage from day four. It is perfect for my reluctant reader.

While I found this to be useful, I wouldn't say it is excellent. I have my students complete it each day as a warm-up, but we never do Day 5, which is a writing prompt, because I find the prompts to be too simplistic and not focused on evidence based writing called for by the Common Core State Standards. All of the questions for Days 1-4 are multiple choice, which also has some limitations. I do like the variety of genres and how each day for the week is the same topic. I also think most of the topics are engaging for students of this age.

This book is useless to me without the accompanying CD.Teachers buy this book and make work sheets.I have previously bought this series (Except Grade 6) and loved it.Very disappointed with what arrived.I have tried and tried to ask for help about this matter and nothing has happened.Please help!!!