Story With Questions

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CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4A

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.5.4B

An older character shares serious advice with the main character in the story

• Memory Moment

• Again & Again

• Words of the Wiser

• Tough Questions

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CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The story is interrupted by a memory that comes to the character.

• Aha Moment

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

• Words of the Wiser

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

In the short story "Shells" Michael smelling his mother's talc is an example of which signpost?

• Contrast & Contradiction

• Words of the Wiser

• Tough Questions

• Memory Moment

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

According to the story, old New England sailors believe A.B.S. stands for —

• A Big Sailor

• Away Beastly Sea

• Able-Bodied Seaman

• Alfred Bulltop Stormalong

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CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

Which sentence from the story shows that Stormy loves the ocean?

• … folks used to say he had salt water in his veins.

• … all the Yankee clipper crews wanted him to sail with them.

• … no ship, not even The Lady of the Sea, was big enough for him.

• … folks always guessed he was a sailor and asked him questions about the sea.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RF.3.4C

At the beginning of the story, the reader can tell that Stormy —

• wants to grow taller

• likes getting attention

• wishes he had his own ship

• wants to be like everyone else

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.1.3

What is the main theme of the story 'The Giving Tree'?

• A) Friendship

• B) Sacrifice

• C) Adventure

• D) Mystery

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.9

In the story 'The Tortoise and the Hare', what lesson does the tortoise teach?

• A) Speed is everything

• B) Slow and steady wins the race

• C) Never trust a hare

• D) Always take shortcuts

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CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

Which literary device is used in the sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?

• A) Simile

• B) Metaphor

• C) Personification

• D) Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3