Everyday Use by Alice Walker Complete Guided Reading Worksheet

This lesson contains a complete guided reading worksheet with 44 questions (answer keys included) for Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Questions consist of True and False, fill in the blank and short answer.

This story is found in high school literature books as well as the Springboard Level 5 book.

It will take about 50-70 minutes for the students to complete this worksheet (depending on the student).

If you don't have this story in your literature book, you can find it here:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html

This story appears in many literature books as well as the Springboard Level 5 book.

Common Core and Florida Standards Compliant:
LA 9.2.1.2 - Locate and analyze elements of characterization, setting...,
LA 9.1.7.1 - Use background knowledge of subject and related context areas...
LAFS.9.RI.1.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its...
LAFS. 9.RI.1.3...Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals...

Higher Level Common Core:
LA 11.12.1.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text...
LA 11.12.1.2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development
over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another

This worksheet was made with cost effective photocopying in mind. The worksheet is 2 pages. You can make front/back copies using only 1 sheet of paper. No staples.

As a public school English teacher, the biggest challenge I have is getting students to read in class or at home. Put a book or short story in front of them, they'll look at it for a few seconds and start day dreaming...

Until I stumbled upon something magnificent. Teenagers like accomplishment. These worksheets ask questions while the reader reads. Every couple of sentences, there's another question in true or false, fill in the blank, define, multiple choice formats. As the student reads, boom, another question. They answer it and continue reading. Before you know it, they have finished reading the story and completed all questions for further lessons/discussions.

These worksheets are great for daily lessons, test/quiz grades, extra credit, homework, group work (in pairs of two), substitute teacher lessons, emergency lesson plans, great for ESOL or however you can imagine.

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This lesson is meant to help students focus on the reading while answering simple questions to keep them on track and focused. (check out my feedback for outstanding results).

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