Measure general reading comprehension with this quiz bundle covering A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. A firsthand account of the author’s experiences as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War, this book is an excellent choice for teachers who want to incorporate more autobiographical nonfiction into their English and/or history classes. In addition to answer keys, alternate quiz options are provided for re-assessment purposes. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. By taking these assessments, students will demonstrate knowledge of the following: Recent political changes in Sierra Leone General descriptions of setting Background details concerning key figures in the text Shared experiences among key figures in the text Medical concerns among key figures in the text Major entities associated with conflict, such as the Revolutionary United Front Violent events Consequences of war Coping strategies among key figures in the text Difficulties in rehabbing figures in the text The collective motivation for the boys’ attending school Complications affecting the civilian government Ishmael’s escape And more

Covering the entirety of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves, this set of three application worksheets reinforces high school students’ knowledge of literary elements in relation to the nonfiction text. Students will apply knowledge of the following literary devices: alliteration, allusion, assonance, dramatic irony, epiphany, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, invective, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, sibilance, simile, situational irony, and verbal irony. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 1 through 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, 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 Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including alliteration, allusion, epiphany, euphemism, idiom, invective, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and verbal irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 17 through 24 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, 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 Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including alliteration, allusion, assonance, epiphany, euphemism, hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, and situational irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, and sharpen literary device application skills with these activities and assessments covering chapters 9 through 16 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves. Two quizzes, two vocabulary application activities, two crossword puzzles, two word search games, a literary elements worksheet, 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 Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Apply knowledge of various literary devices including allusion, dramatic irony, epiphany, euphemism, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and verbal irony Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat in full. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are organized in four-chapter groupings and delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. The following words from chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are addressed: aberration, acolyte, admonition, adulterate, affinity, ambrosial, amiable, antipathy, apprehensive, ardent, aristocratic, armament, aseptic, austere, avocation, clad, confound, countenance, credulity, decrepit, defer, desolate, doughty, ensconce, erudite, eschew, evasive, exasperate, expedient, fallacious, fervently, fodder, formaldehyde, formidable, fortuitous, gabble, gauge, genteel, hastily, horde, idle, impertinence, inauspicious, incipient, induce, inscrutable, invariably, jettison, keen, lamentable, lanky, leprosy, lethargic, levity, loutish, malleable, meekly, munificent, obeisance, opaque, paradox, peregrination, plaintively, portentously, precarious, predilection, quizzical, rampant, rebuke, recalcitrant, relish, reluctant, replete, requisite, sibilant, sojourn, studiously, subservience, superfluous, and surcease. The following words from chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 are addressed: abruptly, acute, adept, adversely, affect, behoove, blandishment, blithering, chagrin, cognizance, copious, crude, deduce, deign, disconcerting, distrait, err, evince, exacting, factotum, fleetingly, gait, glumly, idyllic, immense, impasse, imprecation, inconspicuous, incredulously, indelibly, indignation, insatiable, interlude, inveigle, lichen, lupine, misconstrue, monotony, morose, mournful, negligible, omission, overt, palatial, pallid, palpable, perfunctory, precedence, preternaturally, promenade, prominent, promptly, prurient, reciprocate, salutary, sinuously, stoicism, strenuous, surreptitious, taciturn, tawny, temerity, unabashed, unduly, unobtrusive, usurp, vehemently, veritable, vigilance, virulence, vouchsafe, and wane. The following words from chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12 are addressed: aloof, ameliorate, apparition, bestow, bevy, boisterously, boon, cache, candor, depredation, diligently, disabused, dispel, diurnal, ebullient, elicit, enamored, encumbrance, ephemeral, epitome, esoteric, extirpation, fruitless, hasten, heathen, hellery, imperative, incontrovertible, indoctrination, infirm, inviolate, lithe, mesenteries, milieu, monogamist, nuptial, obscure, obstinately, paroxysm, pilfer, precede, preliminary, ptarmigan, ratify, rectify, regimen, regurgitate, render, rickets, rudimentary, sadism, salient, scrupulously, sphagnum, spindrift, sustenance, unbridled, unfeigned, vigor, and wistful. The following words from chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16 are addressed: abasement, adjourn, ado, amble, amends, amorous, assuaged, attribute, autonomous, baleful, bereaved, braggadocio, buoyantly, cacophony, cavalier, conviviality, credence, dejection, dereliction, disconsolately, dragoon, earnest, equanimity, esker, excursion, exodus, feasible, forestall, grimace, haunch, impassionata, impetuosity, infatuation, inherent, innumerable, internecine, interrogate, linguistics, melee, miscegenation, mitigate, nonplussed, paean, paramount, patriarch, predicament, ravine, rotund, salacious, scamper, scornful, shrill, siege, transcend, truncated, uncanny, untrammeled, ventriloquial, vim, voracity, wean, and wheedling. The following words from chapters 17, 18, 19, and 20 are addressed: adjuration, adversary, apathetic, astern, barren, blasé, brandish, communal, competent, demeanor, denouement, desultory, distemper, eminently, enfeebled, erratic, fettle, imminent, impart, insouciance, interstice, irrefutable, jink, lassitude, latent, minutely, muskeg, plead, quandary, query, sacrosanct, saunter, scour, sculpin, shudder, solicitude, spinster, supernumerary, timidly, transgress, traverse, valor, vigilante, wary, wend, and wherewithal. The following words from chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 are addressed: abreast, affront, ascertain, baneful, bogy, bravado, consternation, cower, decimate, disperse, disseminate, dither, don, elephantine, encyst, engender, enraptured, feint, foil, forage, galumph, gambit, idiosyncrasy, indignant, jaunt, lugubrious, lumbar, niche, nomadic, obliquity, ordain, peripheral, pertinent, placid, prospect, rapport, remonstrance, scatology, serpentine, sleuthing, spurn, strychnine, transverse, tunic, unanimously, ungainly, and vilification.

Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension and integrate narrative nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this bundle of vocabulary games and activities covering Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Vocabulary lists, application activities, crossword puzzles, word search games, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. The following words from chapters 1 through 9 are addressed: adage, avenge, bayonet, cassette, commence, congealed, crapes, cutlass, disconsolate, evade, evoke, flotsam, hasten, hoarse, Imam, indelibly, interrogate, laden, liberation, lorry, machete, maim, mercenaries, mosque, notorious, parable, predicament, refugee, reluctantly, scabbard, shudder, soukous, sternly, strive, subsequent, sura, tactic, taut, thatched, translucent, vain, verandah, vigilance, and wharf. The following words from chapters 10 through 14 are addressed: accord, akimbo, boast, calabash, conjure, countenance, dilapidated, disperse, embellish, evince, exalt, garrison, intermission, jovial, jubilation, monologue, pestle, profusely, Quran, recite, respective, reverie, riffraff, spirogyra, tarpaulin, transfixed, transparent, tributary, vanquished, vehemently, waft, and wahlee. The following words from chapters 15 through 21 are addressed: ablution, affect, amiss, auspice, beneficiary, chieftaincy, commotion, convoy, counsel, democratically, descend, enunciate, exploit, facilitator, fare, festoon, gari, inquire, jerrican, jetty, latrine, mantle, marvel, mesmerized, persistent, perspire, proficient, proposition, provoke, raggamorphy, reconcile, redemption, relentlessly, resilience, savor, sentence, sporadic, summon, torrent, vividly, wail, Walkman, and wander. By engaging with these activities, students will: Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

Evaluate reading comprehension, support vocabulary development, facilitate the process of academic research, and integrate narrative nonfiction into the English Language Arts classroom with this bundle of activities and assessments for teaching Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Six quizzes, three vocabulary application activities, three crossword puzzles, three word search games, a comprehensive research project, a summative test, 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 Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences Explore how figures in the text think, behave, interact, and develop Articulate connections between a research topic and the assigned text Evaluate the credibility of nonfiction texts, taking into consideration readability, date, relevance, expertise, and bias Organize information in a cohesive manner, using a note-taking system that includes summary, paraphrasing, and quoted material Analyze, synthesize, and integrate information, generating a thoughtfully comprehensive report, free of generalities and redundancies Write a brief essay addressing the author’s resilience, supporting claims with relevant textual evidence and adhering to the standard conventions of written English Come to class better prepared to discuss narrative nonfiction

Evaluate general reading comprehension with this set of three plot-based quizzes covering the entirety of Bette Greene’s World War II-set novel Summer of My German Soldier. Three bonus short answer assessments are provided for re-testing purposes, but they may also be used as guided reading worksheets. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following: Characters Setting Historical context Plot