Martin's Big Words, by Doreen Rappaport, is a story about Martin Luther King. Encourage your learners to create a list of questions before beginning the reading. Also, learners should be working on monitoring and clarifying to...

For this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 19 short answer questions covering chapter 4 of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.

In this Diary of a Part-Time Indian comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 21 short answer questions pertaining to pages 159-178 of Diary of a Part-Time Indian in order to help them better understand the novel and the...

Is your class reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer? Are you looking to give them reading comprehension questions to guide their reading? This online resource divides chapters 14-31 into four sections, providing questions for each. Assign...

In this Tuesdays with Morrie comprehension and opinion worksheet, students respond to 11 short answer questions covering pages 152-163 of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom in order to help them better understand the novel and themselves.

This online quiz asks basic comprehension questions for Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale. Test-takers answer fifteen multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, and receive immediate feedback. These basic questions focus mainly on...

In this Tuesdays with Morrie comprehension and opinion worksheet, pupils respond to 15 short answer questions covering pages 130-151 of Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom in order to help them better understand the novel and themselves.

Review how to use interrogative words correctly in sentences. Middle schoolers read a short section of instructions and examples, and ask a question about the underlined words in seven sentences. Answers are provided at the bottom of the...

In this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 16 short answer questions covering chapters 3-4 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech to help them better understand those chapters.

In this comprehension check worksheet, pupils respond to 24 short answer questions from Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson in order to help them better understand the novel.

In this comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer questions covering chapter 2 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

In this comprehension check worksheet, pupils respond to 13 short answer questions covering chapter 7 of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton in order to help them better understand the chapter and the novel.

In this Street Pharm comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 19 short answer questions pertaining to pages 183-223 of Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen in order to help them better understand the novel.

In this Touching Spirit Bear comprehension check worksheet, pupils respond to eighteen short answer questions covering chapter fourteen of Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen in order to help them better understand the chapter and the...

In this Diary of a Part-Time Indian comprehension check worksheet, high schoolers respond to 20 short answer questions pertaining to pages 15-31 of Diary of a Part-Time Indian in order to help them better understand the novel and the...

This resource is made up of a series of reading passages with accompanying questions. On the first page, learners read the definitions of both fiction and non-fiction. They examine four short selections before writing either fiction or...

In this story structure lesson, students read the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and identify the characters, setting and main themes of the book. They answer a list of study questions about the book.

In this Mexican Revolution instructional activity, students respond to 9 essay questions that require them to describe the details and impact of the war.    

In this literature worksheet, students respond to 13 short answer and essay questions about Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.

Tired of giving the same old multiple-choice tests, and have the urge for a new assessment? Then bring the precision of a Socratic seminar into your classroom. Even if you did not read Cold Sassy Tree the organization and explanation on...

In this controversial issues worksheet, learners read 15 famous quotations on controversial topics and identify who said each of them.

Students gain practice asking direct questions. They recognize the difference between subject and object questions. After a lecture/demo, students work in small groups and use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice.

Middle schoolers study the lives of homeless children who rode the Orphan Train by reading first person essays of the children's experiences. They examine what rights were denied to the homeless children during the late 1800's and decide...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a 9-paragraph story called "The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger" and then respond to 10 short answer questions.