Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Authored by Areli Rodriguez
English
1st - 4th Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension of the children's novel "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" by Louis Sachar. The questions assess students' understanding of character identification, plot details, and specific story elements from this popular elementary fiction book. Designed for grade 3-4 students, the quiz requires recall of key characters like Mrs. Jewls, Mrs. Gorf, and Louis the yard teacher, along with memorable plot points such as Mrs. Jewls mistaking her students for monkeys and the running joke about the nonexistent 19th story. Students need strong reading comprehension skills to remember character names, understand character roles and relationships, and retain specific details about events throughout the interconnected short stories. The questions demonstrate mastery of literal comprehension rather than inferential thinking, making this appropriate for students developing their ability to extract and remember explicit information from chapter books. Created by Areli Rodriguez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 1-4. This comprehension quiz serves multiple instructional purposes in the elementary classroom, functioning effectively as a post-reading assessment after students complete the novel independently or through guided reading groups. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a formative assessment to gauge student understanding before moving to higher-order thinking activities about the text, or use it as a summative evaluation of reading comprehension skills. The quiz works well for homework assignments, allowing students to review the text at home, or as a warm-up activity to refresh memory before class discussions about themes and character development. This assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1 and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1, which require students to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text details and make inferences by referring explicitly to the text.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who was the first teacher in the book?
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did Mrs. Jewls think the students in the classroom on the 30th story were?
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which student wasn't able to count correctly?
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which student taught the class about gravity by falling asleep and falling out of the window?
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who always goes home on the kindergarten bus?
Tags
CCSS.RI.2.1
CCSS.RI.3.1
CCSS.RL.1.1
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.3.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who is the fastest draw in Mrs. Jewls' class?
Tags
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
CCSS.RL.7.6
CCSS.RL.8.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who teaches the class on the 19th story?
Tags
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
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