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Gingerbread For Liberty HMH into Reading

Authored by Minyon Scott

English, History, Education

2nd Grade

10 Questions

CCSS covered

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This quiz assesses second-grade reading comprehension skills through questions about "Gingerbread For Liberty," a biographical text about a baker during the American Revolutionary War period. The questions target fundamental comprehension strategies including literal recall of story details, character analysis, vocabulary in context, and text structure identification. Students must demonstrate their ability to extract explicit information from the text, understand character motivations and conflicts, determine word meanings through context clues, and recognize the characteristics of biographical writing. The quiz requires students to synthesize information to identify main ideas and author's purpose, skills that align perfectly with second-grade expectations for reading informational and biographical texts. Created by Minyon Scott, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 2. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for assessing student comprehension of biographical texts and can be effectively used as a post-reading assessment, homework assignment, or review activity following guided reading sessions. The questions progress from basic recall to higher-order thinking skills, making it ideal for formative assessment to gauge student understanding of both story elements and genre characteristics. Teachers can use this quiz to identify students who need additional support with comprehension strategies or vocabulary development. The assessment aligns with Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 for asking and answering questions about key details, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 for determining word meanings in context, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 for understanding text structure and genre features.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the baker best known for?

pies

cakes

cookies

gingerbread

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the "New World" that the baker traveled to?

America

Columbus, Georgia

England

Phenix City

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why didn't the baker's wife think that he should fight for America?

he was too old and fat

he was too old and thin

he was too tired and busy

he just moved into a new house

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did the baker think that he could speak to the invading soldiers?

they were older than him

they wanted to speak to him

they came from America

they were born in the same place as he was

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RF.1.4C

CCSS.RF.2.4C

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The baker to General Washington that he could persuade the soldiers. What do you think that persuade means?

to get others to not like each other

to fight

to get others to pick his side

to entertain them at a show

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When did the baker travel across the bay?

early in the morning

early in the evening

in the darkest hour

at lunch

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the baker notice about the enemy's army?

they looked mean

they were all girls

they were dressed real fancy

they hadn't eaten in a while

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

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