The House on Mango Street Close Reading Inference Worksheets Bundle with Answer Keys

Help students go beyond basic reading comprehension and develop close reading analysis skills with this bundle of 37 rigorous worksheets covering The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Each activity focuses on a single vignette from the novel and helps readers get a better sense of how the author's literary style develops character and advances plot. Answer keys are provided, and all materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive bundle option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will do the following:

• Identify what the text states explicitly and implicitly

• Define complex words or phrases as they are used in the text

• Discern the intended effects of the author's stylistic choices

• Explore cause-and-effect relationships

• Examine how complex characters think, behave, develop, and interact

• Compare and contrast characters

• Explore a variety of objects for symbolic value

• Apply knowledge of literary devices including metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, repetition, situational irony, dramatic irony, and more

• Articulate the greater significance of given details

• Explore important social concepts such as gender inequality and institutional bias

• Conduct brief research on relevant topics such as Roman mythology and Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant textual evidence

• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision

• And more

The following vignettes are addressed:

• Vignette 1 (The House on Mango Street)

• Vignette 2 (Hairs)

• Vignette 3 (Boys & Girls)

• Vignette 4 (My Name)

• Vignette 5 (Cathy Queen of Cats)

• Vignette 6 (Our Good Day)

• Vignette 7 (Laughter)

• Vignette 9 (Meme Ortiz)

• Vignette 10 (Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin)

• Vignette 12 (Those Who Don't)

• Vignette 14 (Alicia Who Sees Mice)

• Vignette 15 (Darius & the Clouds)

• Vignette 17 (The Family of Little Feet)

• Vignette 18 (A Rice Sandwich)

• Vignette 20 (Hips)

• Vignette 21 (The First Job)

• Vignette 23 (Born Bad)

• Vignette 24 (Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water)

• Vignette 25 (Geraldo No Last Name)

• Vignette 26 (Edna's Ruthie)

• Vignette 27 (The Earl of Tennessee)

• Vignette 28 (Sire)

• Vignette 29 (Four Skinny Trees)

• Vignette 30 (No Speak English)

• Vignette 31 (Rafaela Who Drinks Coconut & Papaya Juice on Tuesdays)

• Vignette 32 (Sally)

• Vignette 33 (Minerva Writes Poems)

• Vignette 34 (Bums in the Attic)

• Vignette 35 (Beautiful and Cruel)

• Vignette 36 (A Smart Cookie)

• Vignette 37 (What Sally Said)

• Vignette 38 (The Monkey Garden)

• Vignette 39 (Red Clowns)

• Vignette 40 (Linoleum Roses)

• Vignette 41 (The Three Sisters)

• Vignette 42 (Alicia and I Talking on Edna's Steps)

• Vignette 44 (Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes)

Copyright restrictions do not allow for novel content to be included, so the purchaser is responsible for providing students with the text.

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• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer - Google and printable

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Google and printable

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