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Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent Questions about “The TV Guy”
Say hi to the TV guy. Readers finish their mid unit assessments by reading The TV Guy and answering text-dependent questions. Learners complete multiple choice as well as short and long answer questions pertaining to comprehension,...
Curated OER
Answering Literal Comprehension Questions
Practice using the Turn the Question Around (TQA) method to answer reading comprehension questions based on short narrative paragraphs. Instructions and materials are included for direct, guided, and independent instruction. Responses...
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Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent and Short Answer Questions: “Arctic Fun”
Let's have a little fun! Readers take a mid-unit assessment by answering text-dependent and short-answer questions using the text Arctic Fun. They then complete a form to track their progress in the unit thus far.
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent and Short Answer Questions: Excerpts from “A Limited Supply”
There's no such thing as an unlimited resource. Scholars complete a mid-unit assessment by reading A Limited
Supply. They answer text-dependent questions and complete a graphic organizer about key terms in the text.
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End of Unit Assessment, Part 1: Text-Dependent Questions and Storyboard Draft: “You Can Do a Graphic Novel” Excerpt
Eyes on the finish line. Serving as the first part of the end of unit assessment, learners answer questions based on a text about how to write a graphic novel. Using what they've learned, they then create a storyboard about the invention...
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Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent MultipleChoice and Short Answer Assessment
Shout it from the rooftops. Scholars take a mid-unit assessment of their reading thus far in The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. Learners answer multiple choice, short answer, and fill in the blank questions relating to pages...
Curated OER
English in Mind Unit 4: Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students write answers from given questions, put words in order to create a sentence, complete questions with do or does, and make sentences negative. Students answer thirty one fill in the blank and...
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English in Mind Unit 12 Grammar Practice
In this English grammar worksheet, students identify the correct order for a conversation, answer questions in complete sentences, and practice using in/on/at. There are twenty four fill in the blank and short answer questions.
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Round-Robin Reading Quiz
Small groups of learners read text round-robin style, and then work individually to answer three questions based on the text. Next, they share their questions and responses and add ideas from the group. The reading strategies detailed...
National Association of Writers in Education
Character and Situation
Delve into narrative writing that puts choice in the hands of the writers. Kids pick their own characters, emotions, items, and places from a list and tie them together in the exposition. Several questions help guide the writers toward...
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Regarding the Fountain: Questioning Strategy—Cubing
Look deeper into the text with a reading strategy based on asking critical thinking questions. While reading Reading the Fountain by Kate Klise, learners think of questions that help them describe, compare, associate, analyze,...
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Walk Two Moons: Question Answer Relationship Strategy
Middle schoolers develop a strategy as they read excerpts from Walk Two Moons. Using question and answer relationship strategies class members bolster their reading comprehension as they appropriately identify and create...
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Reading about Freaky Frogs: “The Glass Frog”
Freaky frogs are the focus of a lesson plan designed to boost reading comprehension skills using text features and asking and answering questions. Informational text and a poem supply scholars with animal-related vocabulary and facts. A...
Maine Content Literacy Project
Introduction to the Short Story
How should pupils read short stories? Set them up for this unit with an introductory lesson that goes over the main characteristics of a short story and starts learners off reading their first short story of the unit. In order to get a...
Curated OER
100 Questions
Young scholars practice problem solving skills by asking questions and participating in a design challenge. In this asking questions lesson, students work in pairs to ask questions to design a solution for a difficult personal problem....
Film English
The Man Who Planted Trees
Grow an understanding of short story with a well-sequenced plan built around an Academy Award-winning short film. Class members explore the elements of an effective short story, and practice writing their own. They also watch the short...
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Answering and Scoring Open-Ended Questions
Help learners respond in the best way possible to open-ended questions. Go through the ACE method with a text and question of your choice. Scholars work in groups to post their responses on the board. An attached rubric is used for...
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Forming Open-Ended Questions
Help readers learn to create their own open-ended questions for any text you are working with. Using Bloom's Taxonomy, learners begin on the lower levels and work their way up to form questions that focus on synthesis instead of simple...
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Are You Ready, Sam?
In this comprehension worksheet, learners read a short story and then answer three short answer questions regarding the meaning of the short story as well as relating the story to their own lives.
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Organic Chemistry II-Exam Answer Key
For this organic chemistry worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice problems about organic reactions, they write the molecular structures for the products of 20 reactions, they answer 10 short answer questions about specific groups...
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Intermediate Short Stories - "A New Cat"
Learners will read a short story in a basic and advanced version. They then answer 3 comprehension questions and 5 vocabulary questions.
Recorded Books
Teacher's Guide: The Pinballs
Dive your class into the novel The Pinballs by Betsy Byars with the support of this reading guide. Including short answer questions, a multiple choice comprehension quiz, and extension activities, a variety of materials are...
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English in Mind Unit 13: Grammar Practice
In this grammar worksheet, pupils write questions from a statement, practice using was and were, and put words in the correct order to form a question. Students answer twenty seven short answer and multiple choice questions.