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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.
With this summative test covering the entirety of Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat, 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:
Demonstrate knowledge of significant people and events
Apply knowledge of literary elements including allusion, epiphany, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and personification
Match vocabulary terms to their correct definitions
Write a brief essay addressing the greater significance of the book’s title and how the author advances its theme, supporting claims with relevant textual evidence and adhering to the standard conventions of written English
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 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
Covering chapters 17 through 24 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves, this application worksheet reinforces high school students’ knowledge of literary elements in relation to the nonfiction text. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will apply knowledge of the following literary devices:
alliteration
allusion
assonance
epiphany
euphemism
hyperbole
idiom
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
sibilance
simile
situational irony
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
Covering chapters 9 through 16 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves, this application worksheet reinforces high school students’ knowledge of literary elements in relation to the nonfiction text. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will apply knowledge of the following literary devices:
allusion
dramatic irony
epiphany
euphemism
hyperbole
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
sibilance
simile
situational irony
verbal irony
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
Covering chapters 1 through 8 of Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf, a scientific memoir exploring the behavior of wolves, this application worksheet reinforces high school students’ knowledge of literary elements in relation to the nonfiction text. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will apply knowledge of the following literary devices:
alliteration
allusion
epiphany
euphemism
idiom
invective
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
situational irony
verbal irony
Facilitate vocabulary development, enhance reading comprehension, and integrate scientific nonfiction in the ELA classroom with this set of vocabulary games and activities covering chapters 21, 22, 23, and 24 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: 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.
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 17, 18, 19, and 20 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: actuate, 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.
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 13, 14, 15, and 16 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: 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.
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 9, 10, 11, and 12 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: 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.
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
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
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 general reading comprehension and align English Language Arts and World History curricula with this plot-based quiz covering Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Old Man at the Bridge,” a piece of historical fiction addressing the Spanish Civil War. The assessment may double as a guided reading worksheet to facilitate engagement with the narrative. An answer key and copy of the public domain text are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following aspects of plot:
Point of view
The narrator’s role
Weather conditions
A relevant holiday
The old man’s age
The old man’s home city
The reason the old man is the last person to leave the city
The old man’s personal background
The old man’s health condition
The old man’s perspective on cats
And more
Evaluate general reading comprehension and help middle and high school students relate to works of fiction with this plot-based quiz covering Cynthia Rylant’s short story titled “Checkouts.” The assessment may double as a guided reading worksheet to facilitate active engagement with the text. An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following aspects of plot:
Setting
The protagonist’s reaction to moving
The narrator’s perspective on the act of suffering
Why the narrator enjoys grocery shopping
The job of the protagonist’s love interest
Qualities the protagonist appreciates about her love interest
Qualities the love interest appreciates about the protagonist
The boy’s reaction to the protagonist’s smile
The amount of time that passes between encounters
The narrator’s perspective on children who want things
The narrator’s comparison between humans and a certain kind of animal
Why the protagonist becomes less interested in the boy
Where the boy starts working after leaving the grocery store
Evaluate general reading comprehension and align English Language Arts and American History curricula with this plot-based quiz covering Ray Bradbury’s Civil War-based short story “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.” The assessment may double as a guided reading worksheet to facilitate engagement with the narrative. An answer key is included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following:
Setting
The drummer boy’s name
The drummer boy’s age
The amount of time the drummer boy has served
Whether the drummer boy enlisted legitimately or illegitimately
The general’s grave expectations for the following day
The general’s assessment of the soldiers’ preparation
The general’s evaluation of the drummer boy’s role
The resolution
Evaluate general reading comprehension and help middle and high school students relate to works of fiction with this plot-based quiz covering Borden Deal’s short story titled “Antaeus.” The assessment may double as a guided reading worksheet to facilitate active engagement with the narrative. An answer key is provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the following aspects of plot:
Point of view
Setting
The protagonist’s general characterization
The reason T.J.'s family moved
T.J.'s new social group
The group’s hangout spot
What T.J. wants to plant versus his peers
The identity of the person who threatens the kids’ work
The kids’ decision concerning the fate of the garden