Ray Bradbury's Stories - Quizzes, Vocabulary Games, and Analysis Activities (Volume 1)

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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:

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