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We have published 120 new leveled reading comprehension stories in our bookstore. Spread across six workbooks with 20 stories in each, the stories are level C to I. Answer sheets are provided for each story.

The reading comprehension workbooks in our bookstore are leveled from A to Z, based on the following text criteria:
-    Vocabulary words
-    High-frequency words
-    Average word size
-    Number of words per sentence, on average
-    Amount of repetition of words and phrases
-    Story length
-    Subject matter complexity

Let’s show you one of our new stories. This one’s from our level E reading comprehension workbook.

Sample grade 1 reading comprehension story

We provide the vocabulary words for each story in the right corner. The high frequency words are listed at the beginning of each workbook.  The stories are written to meet grade-level requirements. The story below is an early reader for grade 1 students:

In grade 5, students build on areas started in grade 3 and 4, including:

• Past, present and future tenses, and the introduction of progressive tenses (also called the continuous tenses);
  
• Possessive, relative and indefinite pronouns, and using pronouns to express different points of view;
• The ordering of adjectives in sentences, the use of adverb phrases, and the use of prepositional phrases as adjectives and adverbs;
  
• Prepositions, interjections and conjunctions;
  
• Improving sentence structures, including sentence fragments, run-on sentences and comma splices;
  
• Punctuation covering the use of commas, semi-colons and colons, as well as introductory words and phrases, direct address, question tags and titles.

Where to find the grade 5 grammar worksheets

You will find the grade 5 grammar worksheets in the grammar section of our worksheets pages:

The first step in learning cursive writing is to master each individual letter. Before practicing writing entire words, we suggest the next step is to learn and master the four main letter joins. Those four letter joins are:

bottom joins
bottom to c-shaped joins
e-joins – both top and bottom joins
top letter joins

You’ll find that we have a page on cursive letter joins in our free worksheets section.

Let us demonstrate each of these four letter joins with examples:

Bottom letter joins

The bottom letter joins are the easiest to learn, so start practicing these.  The reason these are the easiest is that the pen stroke extends from the first letter into the second letter in one direction. There is no need for a direction change.

The letter joins covered in bottom joins are: ai, are, au, aw, ay, xh, ck, er, ew, ff, ir, kn, ll, qu, sh, th and ur.

Decimals can be expressed as a fraction. Converting decimals to fractions is usually a two-step process:

1.    Depending on the number of decimal places, convert the fraction using tenths, hundredths, thousandths, etc.
2.    Simplify the fraction to the lowest common term.

Let’s demonstrate this with an example:

The decimal is 0.4.   

Convert the fraction

Write down 0.4 divided by 1

 
Now, multiply both top and bottom by 10 for every number after the decimal point.

In our example, there is one number after the decimal point, so multiply by 10.