Two Bear Cubs Comprehension
Authored by Bailee Bigley
English
3rd Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension skills for a dramatic play titled "Two Bear Cubs," making it ideal for 3rd grade students developing foundational literary analysis abilities. The questions assess students' understanding of plot sequence, character motivation, theme identification, and textual evidence analysis. Students need strong recall skills to track story events across multiple scenes, the ability to identify cause-and-effect relationships, and higher-order thinking skills to determine the central message about courage and perseverance. The quiz requires students to distinguish between explicit details and implicit meanings, analyze character development and changing perspectives, and support their understanding of theme with specific textual evidence. Created by Bailee Bigley, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 3. This comprehension quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the elementary classroom, functioning effectively as a post-reading assessment after students have performed or read the play aloud together. Teachers can use this quiz for independent practice to reinforce close reading strategies, as homework to encourage rereading at home, or as a formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding before moving to related writing activities. The quiz aligns with Common Core standards RL.3.1 for asking and answering questions about key details, RL.3.2 for determining central message and supporting details, and RL.3.3 for describing character actions and motivations, while also supporting RL.3.7 through its focus on dramatic text structure across scenes.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
At the beginning of the play, where are Older Brother and Younger Brother playing?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What warning does Mother Bear give Older Brother and Younger Brother in Scene 1?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
At the end of Scene 1, how do Older Brother and Younger Brother get stuck at the top of a mountain?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is Mother Grizzly’s MAIN problem in Scene 2?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
In Scene 2, how do the animals feel about Measuring Worm when he offers to climb the mountain?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which sentence from the play shows that the animals’ feelings about Measuring Worm are changing in Scene 3?
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.6
CCSS.RL.8.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
At the end of the play, how do the animals feel about Measuring Worm?
Tags
CCSS.RL.3.10
CCSS.RL.3.5
CCSS.RL.4.10
CCSS.RL.4.5
CCSS.RL.4.7
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