Challenge high school students to go beyond general reading comprehension and sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with seven close reading inference activities covering Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Each worksheet addresses meaningful passages from each iteration of the novel: chapter 4 (“New York”), chapter 10 (“Hammond”), chapter 20 (“Control”), chapter 32 (“Nedry”), chapter 46 (“Tyrannosaur”), chapter 48 (“Return”), and chapter 52 (“Destroying the World”). Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these close reading activities, students will do the following: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices, sentence structures, and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including dramatic irony, foreshadowing, hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, situational irony, symbolism, and more Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the seventh iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices, sentence structures, and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including hyperbole, personification, and more Consider themes in context Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the sixth iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices, sentence structures, and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including metaphor and simile Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the fifth iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Choose the most appropriate word replacement without altering the author’s intended meaning Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, hyperbole, sibilance, situational irony, and more Consider themes in context Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the fourth iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices, sentence structures, and narrative techniques Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Compare and contrast characters Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, onomatopoeia, and symbolism Consider themes in context Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the third iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including euphemism, metaphor, and situational irony Consider themes in context Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the second iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Describe tone in context Discern the main purpose of a given passage Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including hubris, symbolism, and understatement Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Introduce college readiness vocabulary, evaluate general reading comprehension, and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering the first iteration of Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel Jurassic Park. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Discern the main purpose of a given chapter Apply knowledge of literary devices including onomatopoeia, simile, and situational irony Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence Come to class better prepared to discuss works of fiction

Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are 8 vocabulary application activities, 8 crossword puzzles, 8 word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. A total of 147 challenging words are addressed: abruptly, adamant, agitation, apprehension, arid, asphyxiate, auxiliary, awestruck, barren, beckon, bemused, benign, besieged, bleak, briskly, cascade, chitter, clamber, commerce, commodity, competence, concomitant, conjure, consortia, consternation, consul, contemptuously, corrugated, curtly, daunting, decipher, deduce, descend, dismay, docile, eccentric, edema, emphatic, empirical, erode, errand, euphoria, evoke, exhalation, flare, foliage, frivolously, gibber, giddy, gnarled, grueling, guru, haste, hasten, hepatotoxin, humility, idle, immense, impart, impetuous, imply, impregnable, incurious, indifferent, indistinct, ineffectually, inept, inexorably, interminable, intravenous, invariably, iteration, laconically, marshal, masticate, matriarchal, maudlin, menacingly, monotonous, mundane, murmur, narcotic, notorious, obliged, obscure, ominous, outmoded, paradigm, peer, peripheral, perpetually, personnel, phosphorescent, plaintively, precariously, preliminary, prestigious, primitive, primly, principal, principle, profusion, promptly, protrude, pungent, rebuke, reeking, relish, reproachfully, revocation, rickety, scamper, scourge, scowl, shirk, shrill, shudder, signify, skitter, sonorous, sparse, spatial, squint, striation, supercilious, swiftly, taunt, taut, taxonomy, tedious, temperament, tinny, transitory, translucent, treacherous, trot, truculent, trudge, unpalatable, vagaries, vaguely, vertebrae, vindicate, wane, whimsical, wince, and wriggle.

Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, sharpen critical thinking skills, and maximize interest in works of fiction with this bundle of materials for teaching the classic Grimm’s fairy tale “The Poor Boy in the Grave,” a cautionary tale reminding readers to be compassionate, for not all people come from nurturing environments. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the short story, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including allusion, foreshadowing, invective, situational irony, and symbolism Consider themes in context Write about literature with clarity, precision, and accuracy Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, sharpen critical thinking skills, and maximize interest in works of fiction with this bundle of materials for teaching the classic Grimm’s fairy tale “The Old Woman in the Wood,” which addresses themes such as the virtues and benefits of discipline and kindness. A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the short story, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will: Read for literal comprehension Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Infer the intended effects of the author’s word choices and narrative techniques Articulate the story’s inciting incident Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, personification, and symbolism Consider themes in context Write about literature with clarity, precision, and accuracy Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning Come to class better prepared to discuss literature