Grade 7 Prentice Hall Lit. Unit 4 Poetry Reading Tests (18 total)

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

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