Mr. Linden's Library
Authored by Annette Gomez
English
5th Grade
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and literary analysis of the story "Mr. Linden's Library," targeting essential 5th-grade English Language Arts skills. Students demonstrate their understanding of fundamental literary elements including genre identification, setting recognition, and author's purpose analysis. The questions require students to recall specific story details while applying their knowledge of literary categories such as distinguishing between fiction and non-fiction, recognizing different story genres like mystery and fairy tale, and identifying various settings. To succeed on this assessment, students must possess strong reading comprehension skills, the ability to categorize literature by genre characteristics, spatial awareness to identify story settings, and critical thinking skills to determine why an author wrote a particular piece—whether to persuade, entertain, or inform readers. Created by Annette Gomez, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 5. This quiz serves as an effective tool for assessing students' comprehension of a specific literary work while reinforcing core reading skills that form the foundation of literary analysis. Teachers can utilize this assessment as a post-reading check for understanding, a formative assessment to gauge student comprehension before moving to more complex analysis tasks, or as a homework assignment to reinforce concepts discussed during class. The quiz works particularly well as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before deeper literary discussions or as a review tool before summative assessments. The questions align with Common Core standards RL.5.2 for determining themes and summarizing texts, RL.5.6 for analyzing author's purpose and point of view, and RL.5.9 for comparing and contrasting stories within the same genre, providing teachers with valuable data on student mastery of these essential fifth-grade reading standards.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is genre of the story Mr. Linden's Library?
Non- Fiction
Mystery
Fairy tale
Biography
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the setting of the story?
Boathouse
tree house
lake house
kitchen
Tags
CCSS.RL.2.1
CCSS.RL.4.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the author's purpose?
Persuade
Entertain
Inform
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.6
CCSS.RI.6.9
CCSS.RL.4.6
CCSS.RL.5.6
CCSS.RL.6.6
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