Ray Bradbury's Stories - Quizzes, Vocabulary Games, and Analysis Activities (Volume 1)
This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Ray Bradbury, are featured: "There Will Come Soft Rains," "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed," "The Fog Horn," and "The Emissary." Collectively, the narratives represent the science fiction, supernatural fiction, and horror genres. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will do the following:
Read for literal comprehension
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Determine the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques
Describe tone in context
Determine the function of given excerpts
Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with an emphasis on foreshadowing, personification, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, callback, paradox, and more
Explore themes in context
Draw parallels between modern technology and the technology featured in "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Conduct brief research on Halloween's history to answer a question pertaining to the season's relevance to the plot of "The Emissary"
Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning
Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
More resources for teaching Bradbury's stories ("All Summer in a Day," "The Veldt," "The Pedestrian," and "The Flying Machine") are available here.
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:
This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Ray Bradbury, are featured: "There Will Come Soft Rains," "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed," "The Fog Horn," and "The Emissary." Collectively, the narratives represent the science fiction, supernatural fiction, and horror genres. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will do the following:
Read for literal comprehension
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Determine the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques
Describe tone in context
Determine the function of given excerpts
Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with an emphasis on foreshadowing, personification, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, callback, paradox, and more
Explore themes in context
Draw parallels between modern technology and the technology featured in "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Conduct brief research on Halloween's history to answer a question pertaining to the season's relevance to the plot of "The Emissary"
Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning
Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
More resources for teaching Bradbury's stories ("All Summer in a Day," "The Veldt," "The Pedestrian," and "The Flying Machine") are available here.
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres:
This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure high school students can read with a purpose and exercise critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Ray Bradbury, are featured: "There Will Come Soft Rains," "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed," "The Fog Horn," and "The Emissary." Collectively, the narratives represent the science fiction, supernatural fiction, and horror genres. Answer keys are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these materials, students will do the following:
Read for literal comprehension
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
Determine the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques
Describe tone in context
Determine the function of given excerpts
Examine how characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices with an emphasis on foreshadowing, personification, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor, callback, paradox, and more
Explore themes in context
Draw parallels between modern technology and the technology featured in "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Conduct brief research on Halloween's history to answer a question pertaining to the season's relevance to the plot of "The Emissary"
Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning
Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
More resources for teaching Bradbury's stories ("All Summer in a Day," "The Veldt," "The Pedestrian," and "The Flying Machine") are available here.
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres: