Grade 8 Prentice Hall Lit. Unit 3 Types of Nonfiction Tests Bundle (14 total)

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)

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