Hans Christian Andersen's Short Stories - Quizzes, Games and Analysis Activities
This short story bundle includes vocabulary games, comprehension quizzes, and close reading inference worksheets to ensure middle and high school students can read with a purpose and practice critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Hans Christian Andersen, are featured: "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Buckwheat." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:
Read for literal comprehension
Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings
Discern 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
Determine the functions of given excerpts
Describe tone in context
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices including alliteration, consonance, sibilance, foreshadowing, situational irony, dramatic irony, metaphor, personification, inversion, hyperbole, and hubris
Consider themes in context
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
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 middle and high school students can read with a purpose and practice critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Hans Christian Andersen, are featured: "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Buckwheat." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:
Read for literal comprehension
Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings
Discern 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
Determine the functions of given excerpts
Describe tone in context
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices including alliteration, consonance, sibilance, foreshadowing, situational irony, dramatic irony, metaphor, personification, inversion, hyperbole, and hubris
Consider themes in context
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
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 middle and high school students can read with a purpose and practice critical thinking and literary analysis skills. Four narratives, each written by Hans Christian Andersen, are featured: "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Buckwheat." Answer keys and copies of the public domain texts are included. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:
Read for literal comprehension
Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings
Discern 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
Determine the functions of given excerpts
Describe tone in context
Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
Apply knowledge of literary devices including alliteration, consonance, sibilance, foreshadowing, situational irony, dramatic irony, metaphor, personification, inversion, hyperbole, and hubris
Consider themes in context
Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence
Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision
Come to class better prepared to discuss literature
Resources are available for teaching short stories of various genres: