The memoir A Long Way Gone tells the story of a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. A crossword puzzle helps reinforce key ideas found in the memoir. The puzzle addresses characters, key events, and other details...

For this reading project worksheet, students read a biography, autobiography, or memoir and think of the person's life as a movie. Students create a picture for scenes from that person's life. Students include a caption or explanation...

The epilogue to former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill's memoir provides readers with an opportunity to practice their informational text reading comprehension skills. 

Jeannette Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle, grapples with the idea that loving someone may or may not include forgiving them for their past behavior. Take a look at a crossword puzzle that reviews characters, plot points, and key details...

The definitions for unfamiliar words drawn from Art Spiegelman graphic novel memoir, Maus, provide the clues for a vocabulary bingo game. 

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English worksheet, students read an excerpt from a memoir and a poem and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then write an essay using details and...

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students read a poem and an excerpt from a memoir and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then write a unified essay using ideas and evidence...

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination worksheet, students read a memoir and a poem and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then compose an essay using ideas from both passages.

In this Regents High School Examination Comprehensive Examination in English worksheet, students read passages from a memoir and a poem and answer comprehension questions.  Students then write a unified essay based on both passages.

Make sure that your pupils have mastered complex literary nonfiction by the end of the year and use this resource to help get them to that point. After a brief description of the Common Core standard, a list of age-appropriate...

The ability to make inferences is an important skill. Provide your class with some practice. This resource includes several different passages with which learners are required to practice inferring. They read each passage and respond to...

In this art and literature worksheet, students answer short answer questions about famous authors, plays, and characters. Students complete 31 short answer questions.

For this Spain and Portugal quiz 1 worksheet, students answer 10 trivia-style questions, not interactively, about Spain and Portugal, then scroll down to check their answers.

In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words correspond to the theme of Presidents' Day.

In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, high schoolers respond to 13 multiple choice questions based on The Things They Carried. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, learners respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on The Things They Carried. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link at the...

In this vocabulary review #136 worksheet, students interactively complete 10 sentences by selecting the correct word with immediate online feedback.

For this Arizona history worksheet, high schoolers read a 5 page selection that includes primary sources about time periods in the state's history. Students then respond to 5 short answer questions based on the selection.

In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Zhang Ziyi and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...