Gingerbread For Liberty HMH into Reading
Authored by Minyon Scott
English, History, Education
2nd Grade
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This quiz assesses second-grade reading comprehension skills through questions about "Gingerbread For Liberty," a biographical text about a baker during the American Revolutionary War period. The questions target fundamental comprehension strategies including literal recall of story details, character analysis, vocabulary in context, and text structure identification. Students must demonstrate their ability to extract explicit information from the text, understand character motivations and conflicts, determine word meanings through context clues, and recognize the characteristics of biographical writing. The quiz requires students to synthesize information to identify main ideas and author's purpose, skills that align perfectly with second-grade expectations for reading informational and biographical texts. Created by Minyon Scott, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 2. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing student comprehension of biographical texts and can be effectively used as a post-reading assessment, homework assignment, or review activity following guided reading sessions. The questions progress from basic recall to higher-order thinking skills, making it ideal for formative assessment to gauge student understanding of both story elements and genre characteristics. Teachers can use this quiz to identify students who need additional support with comprehension strategies or vocabulary development. The assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 for asking and answering questions about key details, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 for determining word meanings in context, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 for understanding text structure and genre features.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the baker best known for?
pies
cakes
cookies
gingerbread
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.4
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the "New World" that the baker traveled to?
America
Columbus, Georgia
England
Phenix City
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.6
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.1.6
CCSS.RL.2.10
CCSS.RL.3.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why didn't the baker's wife think that he should fight for America?
he was too old and fat
he was too old and thin
he was too tired and busy
he just moved into a new house
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did the baker think that he could speak to the invading soldiers?
they were older than him
they wanted to speak to him
they came from America
they were born in the same place as he was
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.4
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RF.2.4C
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The baker to General Washington that he could persuade the soldiers. What do you think that persuade means?
to get others to not like each other
to fight
to get others to pick his side
to entertain them at a show
Tags
CCSS.RI.1.4
CCSS.RI.2.4
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RI.3.4
CCSS.RI.K.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When did the baker travel across the bay?
early in the morning
early in the evening
in the darkest hour
at lunch
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.4
CCSS.RL.K.5
CCSS.RL.1.4
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.3.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the baker notice about the enemy's army?
they looked mean
they were all girls
they were dressed real fancy
they hadn't eaten in a while
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.K.5
CCSS.RL.1.10
CCSS.RL.3.2
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