Reading Skills Chills & Thrills: Spine-Tingling Tales with Comprehension Questions That Help Kids Identify the Main Idea, Draw Conclusions, Determine Cause and Effect, and More; Grades 3-6

Table of contents : Cover......Page 1 Title page ......Page 2 Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 5 1. The Bijou Ghost - A Reading for Details Spooky Story......Page 7 2. Love Potion Commotion - A Cause and Effect Spooky Story......Page 10 3. The Next Step:Scare Radio - A Main Idea Spooky Story......Page 13 4. The Toothbrush - A Compare and Contrast Spooky Story......Page 16 5. The Ugly Druckling - A Point of View Spooky Story......Page 19 6. The Horrible Green Creature - A Drawing Conclusions Spooky Story......Page 22 7. The House on Plum Street - An Analyzing Plot Spooky Story......Page 25 8. The Hideous Blob’s Amazing Comeback - A Main Idea and Supporting DetailsSpooky Story......Page 28 9. The Butcher and His Wife - A Making Inferences Spooky Story......Page 31 10. The Three Ghosts of Lucy Bly - An Understanding Character Spooky Story......Page 34 11. Ask Aunt Doty: An Advice Column for the Supernaturally Inclined - An Author’s Purpose Spooky Story......Page 37 12. The Choice - A Making Predictions Spooky Story......Page 40 13. A Really Bad Hair Day - A Reading for Details Spooky Story......Page 43 14. Ratkins! - An Understanding Setting Spooky Story......Page 46 15. Tales From the Telephone: True Horror - An Author’s Purpose Spooky Story......Page 49 16. Problems Facing Young People Today: An Editorial by Maxwell Bile - A Fact vs. Opinion Spooky Story......Page 52 17. The Dirt: A Horror World Gossip Column by Nintenda Flint - A Compare and Contrast Spooky Story......Page 55 18. Nasty Little Monster - A Sequence of Events Spooky Story......Page 58 19. The Ghost Who Didn’t Believe - A Cause and Effect Spooky Story......Page 61 Answer Key......Page 64 Skills Index......Page 65