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Say hello to a platform dedicated to industrious, yet overtasked teachers like you. Say goodbye to countless hours spent developing relevant and engaging ELA lessons. Whether you are teaching the fundamentals of grammar, creative writing skills, classic literature, or contemporary fiction, you will find thousands of activities and assessments to help you achieve a healthier work-life balance without sacrificing academic rigor.
Evaluate reading comprehension, promote homework accountability, and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this set of quizzes covering chapters 9 through 16 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. The assessments may double as guided reading worksheets or review handouts. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Questions pertain to the following details:
“Wolf naps”
Uncle Albert
A fear for the wolves’ survival
A staple of the wolves’ diet
George’s painful experience
The purpose of a scientific experiment
The main point of Ootek’s story
How wolves catch fish
The death of large quantities of caribou
Ootek’s unique skill
The wolves’ behavior
An experiment involving Mike’s husky
With this plot-based summative test covering the entirety of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, English teachers will evaluate students’ reading comprehension, knowledge of literary devices, and essay writing skills. Included are the following: an answer key, standards-based writing rubric, and test prep study guide. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By completing this assessment, students will:
Correctly identify characters based on given details and descriptions
Demonstrate knowledge of significant events
Apply knowledge of literary devices including alliteration, allusion, dramatic irony, euphemism, foreshadowing, hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, sibilance, simile, situational irony, theme, and verbal irony
Write a brief essay addressing how the protagonist demonstrates she is unwilling to surrender her power as a young woman, supporting claims with relevant textual evidence and adhering to the standard conventions of written English
Evaluate reading comprehension, promote homework accountability, and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this set of quizzes covering chapters 1 through 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. The assessments may double as guided reading worksheets or review handouts. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Questions pertain to the following details:
An incident that helped lead Mowat to become a biologist
The purpose behind Mowat’s study
A long trip to “the middle of nowhere”
Mowat’s supplies
Mike’s background
The first encounter with a wolf
Alarming discoveries
A move to facilitate wolf observations
“Marking territory”
Evaluate reading comprehension, promote homework accountability, and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this set of quizzes covering chapters 17 through 24 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. The assessments may double as guided reading worksheets or review handouts. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Questions pertain to the following details.
Angeline’s surprising ability
Angeline’s family
Census of the wolf population
Population control
The Churchill incident
Why Inuit women thought Mowat was crazy
The purpose behind the wolves’ test of the caribou
A repulsive discovery concerning the caribou
Growth of the pups
A study involving a gas mask
A mass death
The final professional obligation
Evaluate reading comprehension, promote homework accountability, and integrate scientific nonfiction into the ELA classroom with this set of quizzes covering the entirety of Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. The assessments may double as guided reading worksheets or review handouts. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Questions pertain to the following:
An incident that helped lead Mowat to become a biologist
The purpose behind Mowat’s study
A long trip to “the middle of nowhere”
Mowat’s supplies
Mike’s background
The first encounter with a wolf
Alarming discoveries
A move to facilitate wolf observations
“Marking territory”
“Wolf naps”
Uncle Albert
A fear for the wolves’ survival
A staple of the wolves’ diet
George’s painful experience
The purpose of a scientific experiment
The main point of Ootek’s story
How wolves catch fish
The death of large quantities of caribou
Ootek’s unique skill
The wolves’ behavior
An experiment involving Mike’s husky
Angeline’s surprising ability
Angeline’s family
Census of the wolf population
Population control
The Churchill incident
Why Inuit women thought Mowat was crazy
The purpose behind the wolves’ test of the caribou
A repulsive discovery concerning the caribou
Growth of the pups
A study involving a gas mask
A mass death
The final professional obligation
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. A vocabulary list, application worksheet, crossword puzzle, word search, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms 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.
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
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf. A vocabulary list, application worksheet, crossword puzzle, word search, and answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats.
Specifically, the following vocabulary terms 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.
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