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Short stories Common Core RL.6.1 resources for Microsoft Word
Flowers for Algernon Study Guide and Differentiated Test
This is an editable Word Doc! The three levels of differentiation are High, Medium, and Low, and each one is indicated beside the 'Name' section of the test with a H, M, or L. Please just let me know if you have any questions!
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4th - 10th
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Dragon, Dragon Multiple Choice Quiz
This multiple choice quiz contains 15 questions for the story Dragon, Dragon by John Gardner. Questions are based on Bloom's Taxonomy and align with CCS RL.6.1, RL.6.2 and RL.6.3.
Questions focus on tone, irony, analogy, resolution, climax, exposition, rising action, prediction, and other story elements.
Answer key is included. Some of the questions include page numbers, so I've left the file as a Word document so it can be edited.
Sample question:
12. Which of the following indicates the r
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6th - 8th
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Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” – 16 Rigorous Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 16 rigorous unit learning tasks for Guy de Maupassant’s short story, "The Necklace." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external do
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6th - 10th
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Analyzing "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros
Analyze "Eleven" with your 6th, 7th, and 8th graders using this set of rigorous multiple-choice questions. The questions are designed to focus on tone, mood, the author's stylistic choices, and providing text evidence to support one's claims. Pair these questions with a reading (or re-reading) of the story to ensure a deeper understanding of how certain lines contribute to an overall text. An answer key is provided.
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6th - 8th
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W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey's Paw” – 20 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 20 rigorous unit learning tasks for W. W. Jacobs’s short story, "The Monkey’s Paw." The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded external doc
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6th - 10th
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Frank Stockton’s “The Lady or The Tiger” – 18 Common Core Learning Tasks!!
This Common Core resource includes 18 rigorous unit learning tasks for Frank Stockton’s short story, "The Lady or The Tiger.” The teacher-created learning tasks include standard(s) alignment using the language of Common Core State Standards. The unit activities represent a balance of analysis and evaluation activities focusing on a variety of literary elements, constructed responses, and extended informational/explanatory and argumentative writing. This resource also includes some embedded exter
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6th - 10th
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"The Last Night of the World" by Ray Bradbury and "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot
Ten multiple choice higher order thinking questions integrating "The Last Night of the World" by Ray Bradbury and "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot. The questions all require a deeper level of understanding than just recall, leading the students to interpret, synthesize, and infer using the texts. The questions were written with the Florida Standards and the ELA Florida Standards Assessment in mind, but can be used in any class to engage the students in text-dependent, higher order thinking.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Short Story Exam - Works with ANY story
This is a three-page exam that is applicable to any short story your students read. It has 8 short answer questions and two short essay prompts that work great in covering the basic elements of any short story. Questions deal with:
- characters (protagonist and antagonist)
- setting
- conflict
- point of view
- theme
Useful if you have students doing independent reading and you need a test that applies to any of the different stories they've covered.
Also works great as a study guide for an
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6th - 12th
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Hoodwinked Movie: Fairytale Character Point of View Worksheet
A great enrichment activity for fairytales, point of view, characterization, etc. Students would watch the animated movie, "Hoodwinked", and fill out the different character's point of view. It would be helpful to frontload this activity by reading a version of Red Riding Hood.
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5th - 8th
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"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury Consumable Text
The packet includes the short story, "All Summer in a Day," with focus question boxes in the margin. The questions are aligned with the common core and enforce reading strategies throughout the text. The marginal boxes provide an opportunity for whole class formative assessment.
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6th - 8th
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Springboard ELA Grade 6 Lesson 1.7 #6
This activity uses a graphic organizer to identify the scenes in the order in which they happened in the incident, based on the excerpt in the Springboard book from Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. The assignment also asks for students to "Write a sentence that explains what Katie may have been feeling." However I adapted this to a close activity where students only have to add the emotion/feeling to the sentence.
Feel Free to change or update as needed
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6th
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Idiom, Simile, Metaphor
A short story filled with figurative language! Students search for and highlight similes, metaphors, and idioms as they read this delightful tale, when they are done, they list them in three columns. Bonus Activity allows students to be creative and draw a picture of their favorite scene from the story.
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2nd - 8th
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Rumpelstiltskin Fairytale Character Traits
Use this to support close reading, finding textual evidence and evaluating character traits in your elementary or middle school classroom! In this assignment students read the classic fairytale "Rumpelstiltskin" and evaluate the negative traits of each of the four main characters. Students must provide textual evidence to support their claims. Dual purpose activity for Social Emotional Learning as students must think about and explain why these traits are negative and how the characters would be
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5th - 8th
"The Circuit" Study Guide Questions
This study guide contains 17 questions for “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez that can be used as a review activity or as the students read independently. The questions hit different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, allowing the students to reflect upon what they read as well as let the teacher know whether or not the students comprehend the reading. Includes answers.
Questions can also be used as a question bank for making exams or quizzes.
The study guide is in Microsoft Word format, allowing y
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5th - 8th
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Kiploing's "The White Seal" Fun Multiple Intelligence Activities
My students seemed to enjoy the story “The White Seal” even more than any other chapters of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. The inspiring story of Kotick, the white seal who searches tirelessly for a place away from the dangers of man, features beautiful sea-inspired imagery and figurative language. For my seventh graders, we timed this story for mid-December so that we could assign these multiple intelligence activities for the last week before winter break when students benefit from a fun a
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6th - 8th
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Most Dangerous Game Complete Text Overview w/ aligned Lesson Plans
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This text overview opens with a summary of the story and includes page by page analysis that revolve around two major themes. The overview includes (in one column) how the author develops the theme in specific sections of the novel and (in the other column) the specific skills that reader must master/possess to understand the theme the author
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6th - 9th
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Eleven by Sandra Cisneros--graphic organizer
This graphic organizer is Common Core practice aligned with the short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros. Students are asked to:
A. Write down the main idea of the text passage.
B. Make an inference about the text passage.
C. Record ideas or questions you have about the text that you want to share with others.
D. Write any reactions to the text or how it makes you feel.
E. Interpret figurative language used in the text passage.
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6th - 7th
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Identifying Negative Character Traits EDITABLE
Use this to support close reading, finding textual evidence and evaluating character traits in your elementary or middle school classroom! This graphic organizer can be used with any short story or novel to evaluate the negative traits of main characters. Students must provide textual evidence to support their claims. Dual purpose activity for Social Emotional Learning as students must identify negative character traits, then think about and explain why these traits are negative and how the char
Grades:
5th - 8th
Vocabulary and Language Assessment
This assessment includes vocabulary questions for the short passage, "Night Watch," as well as language questions on sentence structures, pronouns, and inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person. An answer key is included.
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6th
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"The Long Rain" by Ray Bradbury and "All Day It Has Rained" by Alun Lewis
Twelve multiple choice higher order thinking questions integrating "The Long Rain" by Ray Bradbury and "All Day It Has Rained" by Alun Lewis. The questions all require a deeper level of understanding than just recall, leading the students to interpret, synthesize, and infer using the texts. The questions were written with the Florida Standards and the ELA Florida Standards Assessment in mind, but can be used in any class to engage the students in text-dependent, higher order thinking.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Interlopers by Saki Readers Notebook Worksheet
This two page worksheet includes text-based questions to walk your students through "The Interlopers". Theme and conflict are also addressed in two extra sections after the reader's notebook questions. This can easily be done individually, in groups, or step-by-step with the teacher.After students work through this activity, assess their understanding of the text with this Interlopers Quiz!
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5th - 8th
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The Circuit Bundle
This is an activity that allows students to work together. It is focused around the short story "The Circuit." It can be incorporated in a unit of similar themes, characters, or stories. The story is included. I used this as a pre-reading exercise. I have students to complete the questions before reading the story. There is a word search with key at end of lesson - this is usually how I start the lesson. The key to the word search also includes definitions. The activity could take 1-3 days
Grades:
6th - 8th
Maha of the Mountains Anticipation Guide
This anticipation guide should be used before reading the short story "Maha of the Mountains" by Queen Raina. This anticipation guide opens up the class to further discussion on the text and should be used after reading the text as well.
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6th - 8th
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