This bundle of 9 tests on 10 reading selections from the textbook HOLT McDOUGAL LITERATURE, GRADE 9 ISBN-10: 0547115784 Unit 2: People Watching (Characterization & Point of View) includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 9 tests total over 80 pages of test material. Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! *PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, this product does not contain the reading selection(s). Included tests listed below: Unit 2: People Watching: Characterization & Point of View in: fiction, nonfiction, & poetry (9 tests total on 10 reading selections) “Pancakes” by Joan Bauer “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant “Hamadi” by Naomi Shihab Nye Excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou “Caged Bird” poem by Maya Angelou “Blind to Failure” article by Karl Taro Greenfeld “A Voice” poem by Pat Mora “My Father’s Song” poem by Simon J. Ortiz Excerpt from Rosa Parks biography by Douglas Brinkley “Rosa” poem by Rita Dove

This bundle of 6 tests on 6 reading selections from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 5 Drama includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 6 tests total over 100 pages of test material. This is over a $20 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Included tests listed below: UNIT 5: DRAMA (6 TESTS TOTAL) Excerpt Anne Frank & Me, Cherie Bennett (20 questions, 7 pages) The Governess, Neil Simon (35 questions, 9 pages) The Ninny, Anton Chekhov (32 questions, 9 pages) The Diary of Anne Frank, Acts I & II, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (210 questions, 59 pages) Excerpt from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (39 questions, 11 pages) Excerpt from Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold (33 questions, 9 pages) Student Objectives: CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. CCRA.R.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. CCRA.R.5 Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole. CCRA.R.6 Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. CCRA.R.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently. This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 5 tests on 5 reading selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 5 Drama includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 5 tests total 121 pages of test material. This is over a $25 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Acts I & II, Israel Horovitz "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Rod Serling Excerpt from Grandpa and the Statue, Arthur Miller "My Head Is Full of Starshine," Peg Kehret “Four Skinny Trees,” Sandra Cisneros This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 9 tests on 9 reading selections from the textbook HOLT McDOUGAL LITERATURE, GRADE 9 ISBN-10: 0547115784 Unit 1: The Plot Thickens (Narrative Structure) includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 9 tests total over 200 pages of test material. This is over a $25 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! *PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, this product does not contain the reading selection(s). Included tests listed below: Unit 1: The Plot Thickens (Narrative Structure:fiction, nonfiction & poetry) (9 tests total) “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell “Daughter of Invention” by Julia Alvarez “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry Excerpt from Black Boy: “The RIghts to the Streets of Memphis” by Richard Wright Excerpt from Chapter 8 of Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe “Incident in a Rose Garden” by Donald Justice “Sorry, Right Number” by Stephen King

This collection of 15 tests (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 6 ISBN: 013131713X Unit 1 Fiction and Nonfiction includes links to most of the reading selections online (if available) along with 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the story, plot development, characterization, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Includes link to free file of the text so each student can get their own copy to annotate. Answer key included. Great for homework, warm-ups, classroom assessment, and more. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost $2.99 x 15 tests, this is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections include: “Greyling,” Jane Yolen “My Heart Is in the Highlands,” Jane Yolen “Stray,” Cynthia Rylant “The Homecoming,” Laurence Yep “The Drive-In Movies,” Gary Soto “The Market Square Dog,” James Herriot “Why Monkeys Live in Trees,” Julius Lester “The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees,” Susan E. Quinlan “Stage Fright,” Mark Twain “My Papa, Mark Twain,” Susy Clemens “The Lady and the Spider,” Robert Fulghum “Names/Nombres,” Julia Alvarez “The Sound of Summer Running,” Ray Bradbury “Eleven,” Sandra Cisneros from Bad Boy- Walter Dean Myers This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 10 tests on 9 secondary English (grades 6-9) reading selections from the textbook series from HOLT McDOUGAL LITERATURE, includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, theme, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 10 tests total over 139 pages of test material. Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! *PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, this product does not contain the reading selection(s). *PRO TEACHER TIP: Even though some of these tests may be specifically designed for a higher grade level, there are students on lower grade levels that can rise to the rigorous test questions! Tests cover the reading selections listed below: “Sorry, Right Number” by Stephen King (12 pages total) “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” by Rod Serling(24 pages total) “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe MS version (19 pages total) “Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe HS version (22 pages total) “A Glow in the Dark” by Gary Paulsen (11 pages total) “Incident in a Rose Garden” poem by Donald Justice (6 pages total) “The Man Who Cheated Death” by Carlos Salinas (16 pages total) “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (10 pages total) “The Cremation of Sam McGee” poem by Robert Service (12 pages total) “The Raven” poem by Edgar Allen Poe (7 pages total) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators! Join our email list to get teaching tips & resources, teacher humor, inspirational quotes, and more right in your inbox! MS ELAR teachers join here! HS English teachers join here!

This bundle of 13 tests on 15 reading selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 6 Themes in the Oral Tradition includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 13 tests total over 195 pages of test material. This is over a $49 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “Grasshopper Logic,” “The Other Frog Prince,” and “Duckbilled Platypus vs. Beefsnakstik®,” Jon Scieszka “Icarus and Daedalus,” Josephine Preston Peabody “Demeter and Persephone,” Anne Terry White “Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital,” Jacqueline Dineen “Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl,” Juliet Piggott “Perseus,” Alice Low “Percy-Us Brings the Gawgon’s Head,” Lloyd Alexander “Sun and Moon in a Box,” Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz “How the Snake Got Poison,” Zora Neale Hurston “The People Could Fly,” Virginia Hamilton “All Stories Are Anansi’s,” Harold Courlander “The Fox and the Crow,” Aesop “Volar: To Fly”, Judith Ortiz Cofer This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 13 tests on 13 reading selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 3 Types of Nonfiction: Expository, Reflective, and Persuasive includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost around $2.99 x 13 tests, this is over a $35 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?,” Richard Mühlberger “Life Without Gravity,” Robert Zimmerman “Conversational Ballgames,” Nancy Masterson Sakamoto “I Am a Native of North America,” Chief Dan George Excerpt from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice Walker “Bernie Williams: Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Joel Poiley “No Gumption,” Russell Baker “The Eternal Frontier,” Louis L’Amour “All Together Now,” Barbara Jordan “The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life,” Geoffrey C. Ward “Rattlesnake Hunt,” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “Alligator,” Bailey White “The Night the Bed Fell,” James Thurber Editable MS Word Doc. You can use this product for years and years! This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 15 tests (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 6 ISBN: 013131713X Unit 3 Type of Nonfiction includes links to most of the reading selections online (if available) along with 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the story, plot development, characterization, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Includes link to free file of the text so each student can get their own copy to annotate. Answer key included. Great for homework, warm-ups, classroom assessment, and more. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost $2.99 x 15 tests, this is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “Zlata’s Diary,” Zlata Filipovic “Hard as Nails,” Russell Baker “Water,” Helen Keller Expository essays “The Shutout,” Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick McKissack, Jr. “Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last,” Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Persuasive speech: Preserving a Great American Symbol by Richard Durbin Excerpt from Something to Declare, Julia Alvarez “A Backwoods Boy,” Russell Freedman “Langston Terrace,” Eloise Greenfield “Turkeys,” Bailey White “La Leña Buena,” John Phillip Santos Excerpt from The Pigman & Me, Paul Zindel “Letter From a Concentration Camp,” Yoshiko Uchida “Letter to Scottie,” F. Scott Fitzgerald “Social Interactions 101: The Rituals of Relating” by Alex J. Packer This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 14 tests on 14 reading selections from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 3 Types of Nonfiction includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 14 tests total over 340 pages of test material. Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Included tests listed below: UNIT 3: TYPES OF NONFICTION (14 TESTS TOTAL) “Making Tracks on Mars,” Andrew Mishkin (38 Questions) “Harriet Tubman: Guide to Freedom,” Ann Petry (46 Questions) “Baseball,” Lionel G. García (19 Questions) Excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (41 Questions) “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin,” Brent Ashabranner (34 Questions) “Forest Fire,” Anaïs Nin (36 Questions) “Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall,” Diane Ackerman (42 Questions) “The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light,” Mary C. Curtis (25 Questions) “On Woman’s Right to Suffrage,” Susan B. Anthony (18 Questions) “The Trouble with Television,” Robert MacNeil (24 Questions) Excerpt from “Sharing in the American Dream” Speech, Colin Powell (28 Questions) “Science and the Sense of Wonder,” Isaac Asimov (30 Questions) “Emancipation” from Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman (37 Questions) “Brown vs. Board of Education,” Walter Dean Myers (41 Questions) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 20 tests on 23 poems (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 6 ISBN: 013131713X Unit 4 Poetry includes links to most of the reading selections online (if available) along with 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Includes link to free file of the text so each student can get their own copy to annotate. Answer key included. Some tests cover two works of short length. Great for homework, warm-ups, classroom assessment, and more. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost around $2.99 x 20 tests, this is over a $59 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “Oranges” and “Ode to Family Photographs,” Gary Soto “Adventures of Isabel,” Ogden Nash “Ankylosaurus,” Jack Prelutsky “Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright,” Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét “A Dream Within a Dream,” Edgar Allan Poe “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” Maya Angelou “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” Lewis Carroll “Willow and Ginkgo,” Eve Merriam “Fame Is a Bee,” Emily Dickinson “April Rain Song,” Langston Hughes “Abuelito Who,” Sandra Cisneros “The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be,” Nikki Giovanni “Child on Top of a Greenhouse,” Theodore Roethke “Dust of Snow,” Robert Frost “who knows if the moon’s,” E. E. Cummings “No Thank You,” Shel Silverstein “Wind and water and stone,” Octavio Paz “Parade,” Rachel Field “The Fairies’ Lullaby,” William Shakespeare “Saying Yes,” Diana Chang “Cynthia in the Snow,” Gwendolyn Brooks “At First, It Is True, I Thought There Were Only Peaches & Wild Grapes,” Alice Walker “Alphabet,” Naomi Shihab Nye Editable MS Word Doc. You can use this product for years and years! This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 19 tests on 26 poem selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 4 Poetry includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Some tests cover more than one poem. Individually each test would cost around $2.99 x 19 tests (more than 250 pages total) this is over a $50 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “Maestro,” “The Desert is My Mother/ El desierto es mi madre,” and “Bailando,” Pat Mora “The Rider,” Naomi Shihab Nye “Seal,” William Jay Smith “Winter,” Nikki Giovanni “Life,” Naomi Long Madgett “The Courage That my Mother Had,” Edna St. Vincent Millay “Loo-Wit,” Wendy Rose “Mother to Son,” Langston Hughes “The Village Blacksmith,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Highwayman,” Alfred Noyes “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” Robert Service “How I Learned English,” Gregory Djanikian “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out,” Shel Silverstein “Weather,” Eve Merriam “One,” James Berry “Full Fathom Five,” William Shakespeare “Onomatopoeia,” Eve Merriam “Train Tune,” Louise Bogan “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe “Martin Luther King,” Raymond Richard Patterson “I’m Nobody,” Emily Dickinson “Jim,” Gwendolyn Brooks “Father William,” Lewis Carroll “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” Robert Frost “Miracles,” Walt Whitman This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 14 tests (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 6 ISBN: 013131713X Unit 2 Short Stories includes links to most of the reading selections online (if available) along with 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the story, plot development, characterization, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Includes link to free file of the text so each student can get their own copy to annotate. Answer key included. Great for homework, warm-ups, classroom assessment, and more. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost $2.99 x 14 tests, this is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections include: “The Wounded Wolf,” Jean Craighead George “The Tail,” Joyce Hansen “Dragon, Dragon,” John Gardner “Zlateh the Goat,” Isaac Bashevis Singer “The Old Woman Who Lived With the Wolves,” Chief Luther Standing Bear “Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys,” James Berry “The Southpaw,” Judith Viorst “The All-American Slurp,” Lensey Namioka “The Circuit,” Francisco Jiménez “The King of Mazy May,” Jack London “Aaron’s Gift,” Myron Levoy “Business at Eleven,” Toshio Mori “Feathered Friend,” Arthur C. Clarke Excerpt from Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 16 tests on 16 reading selections from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 6 Themes in American Stories includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 16 tests total over 150 pages of test material. This is over a $39 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! *PLEASE NOTE: Due to copyright restrictions, this product does not contain the reading selection(s). Included tests listed below: UNIT 6: THEMES IN AMERICAN STORIES (16 TESTS TOTAL) “Water Names,” Lan Samantha Chang (29 questions, 9 pages) “Why the Waves Have Whitecaps,” Zora Neale Hurston (23 questions, 7 pages) “Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon,” Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz (33 questions, 9 pages) “Chicoria,” José Griego y Maestas and Rudolfo A. Anaya (29 questions, 9 pages) Excerpt from “The People, Yes,” Carl Sandburg (26 questions, 9 pages) “Brer Possum’s Dilemma,” Jackie Torrence (37 questions, 11 pages) “John Henry,” Traditional (38 questions, 11 pages) “Western Wagons,” Stephen Vincent Benét (19 questions, 6 pages) “Davy Crockett’s Dream,” Davy Crockett (34 questions, 10 pages) “Paul Bunyan of the North Woods,” Carl Sandburg (25 questions, 7 pages) “Ellis Island,” Joseph Bruchac (20 questions, 6 pages) Excerpt (3 Poems: “Debts”, “Fields of Flashing Light”, & “Migrants”) from Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (52 questions, 15 pages) “Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Alice Walker (28 questions, 9 pages) “An Episode of War,” Stephen Crane (51 questions, 16 pages) Excerpt from My Own True Name, Pat Mora (40 questions, 12 pages) “Words to Sit In, Like Chairs,” Naomi Shihab Nye (39 questions, 12 pages) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 15 tests on 14 fiction and nonfiction selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 1 Fiction and Nonfiction includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost around $2.99 x 14 tests, this is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “The Three-Century Woman,” Richard Peck “The Fall of the Hindenburg,” Michael Morrison “Papa’s Parrot,” Cynthia Rylant “MK,” Jean Fritz 2 Excerpts from An American Childhood, Annie Dillard “The Luckiest Time of All,” Lucille Clifton Excerpt from Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza “A Day’s Wait,” Ernest Hemingway “All Summer in a Day,” Ray Bradbury “Suzy and Leah,” Jane Yolen “My First Free Summer,” Julia Alvarez “My Furthest-Back Person,” Alex Haley “Melting Pot,” Anna Quindlen “Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man?,” Bill Cosby Editable MS Word Doc. You can use this product for years and years! This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 17 tests on 31 poetry reading selections from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 4 Poetry includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). Some tests cover several reading selections. It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: summarization, main idea, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. This is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Included tests listed below: UNIT 4: POETRY (17 TESTS TOTAL) “Describe Somebody” and “Almost a Summer Sky,” Jacqueline Woodson (17 & 25 questions) “Cat!,” Eleanor Farjeon (20 questions) “Silver,” Walter de la Mare (13 questions) “Your World,” Georgia Douglas Johnson (14 questions) “Thumbprint,” Eve Merriam (13 questions) “The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.),” Nikki Giovanni (12 questions) “Ring Out, Wild Bells,” Alfred, Lord Tennyson (18 questions) “Concrete Mixers,” Patricia Hubbell (17 questions) “Harlem Night Song,” Langston Hughes (13 questions) “The City Is So Big,” Richard García (11 questions) “Ode to Enchanted Light,” Pablo Neruda (13 questions) “Little Exercise,” Elizabeth Bishop (18 questions) “The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean,” Emily Dickinson (14 questions) “Southbound on the Freeway,” May Swenson (16 questions) “The Country,” Billy Collins (12 questions) “The Choice,” Dorothy Parker (15 questions) “Runagate Runagate,” Robert Hayden (25 questions) “Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind,” William Shakespeare (18 questions) “Old Man,” Ricardo Sánchez (20 questions) “The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus (11 questions) “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (36 questions) “Harriet Beecher Stowe,” Paul Laurence Dunbar (23 questions) “January,” John Updike (19 questions) “New World,” N. Scott Momaday (19 questions) “For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties,” Alice Walker (33 questions) “Grandma Ling,” Amy Ling (16 questions) “Drum Song,” Wendy Rose (12 questions) “your little voice / Over the wires came leaping,” E. E. Cummings (13 questions) “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost (20 questions) “O Captain! My Captain!,” Walt Whitman (21 questions) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 13 tests on 14 reading selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 1 Fiction & Nonfiction includes 33-91 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: plot development, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 13 tests total over 195 pages of test material. This is over a $50 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Included tests listed below: UNIT 1: FICTION & NONFICTION (13 TESTS TOTAL) “The Baker Heater League,” Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick McKissack, Jr. & “The 11:59,” Patricia C. McKissack (One test on both texts, 71 Questions, 22 pgs) “A Retrieved Reformation,” O. Henry (54 Questions, 17 pgs) “Raymond’s Run,” Toni Cade Bambara (55 Questions, 16 pgs) “Gentleman of Rio en Medio,” Juan A. A. Sedillo (33 Questions, 10 pgs) “Cub Pilot on the Mississippi,” Mark Twain (58 Questions, 18 pgs) “Old Ben,” Jesse Stuart (39 Questions, 11 pgs) “Fox Hunt,” Lensey Namioka (47 Questions, 15 pgs) “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (91 Questions, 26 pgs) Excerpt from An American Childhood, Annie Dillard (Summary: she observes car headlights creating shadows in her bedroom at night) (39 Questions, 13 pgs) Excerpt from Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck (Summary: he gets a customized truck and travels through the Bad Lands with his dog Charley) (47 Questions, 14 pgs) “The American Dream,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (33 Questions, 12 pgs) “Up the Slide,” Jack London (49 Questions, 15 pgs) “A Glow in the Dark,” from Woodsong, Gary Paulsen (34 Questions, 11 pgs) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This collection of 13 tests on 13 short stories (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 7 ISBN-13: 978-0131317147 ISBN-10: 0131317148 Unit 2 Short Stories includes 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the work, characterization, point of view, author’s purpose, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost around $2.99 x 13 tests, this is over a $35 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “The Treasure of Lemon Brown,” Walter Dean Myers “The Bear Boy,” Joseph Bruchac “Rikki-tikki-tavi,” Rudyard Kipling Excerpt from Letters from Rifka, Karen Hesse “Two Kinds,” Amy Tan “Seventh Grade,” Gary Soto “Stolen Day,” Sherwood Anderson “The Third Wish,” Joan Aiken “Amigo Brothers,” Piri Thomas “Zoo,” Edward Hoch “Ribbons,” Laurence Yep “After Twenty Years,” O. Henry “H—ey, Come on Ou—t,” Shinichi Hoshi Editable MS Word Doc. You can use this product for years and years! This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 15 tests (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 6 ISBN: 013131713X Unit 6 Themes in Folk Literature includes 15 tests with 10-50 multiple-choice questions (varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the story, plot development, characterization, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, and figurative language. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Includes link to free file of the text so each student can get their own copy to annotate. Answer key included. Great for homework, warm-ups, classroom assessment, and more. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. Individually each test would cost ~$2.99 x 15 tests (over 190 pages total), this is over a $40 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Reading selections/tests include: “A Crippled Boy” A Vietnamese Folk Tale by My-Van Tran “He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit” African American Folk Tale by Virginia Hamilton “Jeremiah’s Song” by Walter Dean Myers “Lob’s Girl” by Joan Aiken “Mowgli’s Brothers” by Rudyard Kipling “The Stone” by Lloyd Alexander “The Three Wishes” Puerto Rican Folk Tale by Ricardo E. Alegria “Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth” by Chinua Achebe Arachne Greek Myth by Olivia E. Coolidge “Black Cowboy, Wild Horses” by Julius Lester Excerpt from James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Prologue from The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera “The Ant and the Dove” Fable by Leo Tolstoy “The Lion and the Bulls” Fable by Aesop “The Tiger Who Would Be King” by James Thurber Editable MS Word Doc. You can use this product for years and years! This lesson is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!

This bundle of 13 tests on 13 reading selections (zip folder) from the textbook PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE, 8e GRADE 8 ISBN-10: 0131317164 Unit 2 Short Stories includes multiple-choice questions (number varies depending on length of reading selection) from different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy (revised). It will test students’ literal and interpretive understanding of the selection including: plot development, characterization, author’s purpose, point of view, making inferences, vocabulary, literary devices, figurative language, fact & opinion, analogies, and other elements of literature. Questions are modeled after standardized tests (SAT, ACT, and state tests) and are spaced 1.5 lines apart for comfortable reading. The questions also encourage students to go back and re-read key parts of the selection, a crucial skill for comprehension and improving reading stamina. Answer key included. Comes in editable MS Word Doc format. These 13 tests total over 300 pages of test material. This is over a $50 value! Feedback is always welcomed and appreciated! Included tests listed below: UNIT 2: SHORT STORIES (13 TESTS TOTAL) “An Hour with Abuelo,” Judith Ortiz Cofer (41 Questions) “Who Can Replace a Man?,” Brian Aldiss (56 Questions) “Tears of Autumn,” Yoshiko Uchida (62 Questions) “Hamadi,” Naomi Shihab Nye (54 Questions) “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe (64 Questions) “The Finish of Patsy Barnes,” Paul Laurence Dunbar (63 Questions) “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” Ray Bradbury (47 Questions) “Flowers for Algernon,” Daniel Keyes (101 Questions) “Charles,” Shirley Jackson (41 Questions) “Thank You, M’am,” Langston Hughes (54 Questions) “The Story-Teller,” Saki (H. H. Munro) (49 Questions) “The White Umbrella,” Gish Jen (57 Questions) “The Medicine Bag,” Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (54 Questions) This product is student-centered, meaning: –it allows you to become a facilitator! –happier teachers! –happier students! –happier administrators!