Several middle school leveled reading sets have been updated with constructed response and new question formats.
The following reading sets have been updated:
- Infinite Infinities
- The Carpenter’s Assistant
- The Sub
- All in My Head
- The Jazz Club
- The Farmer and the Prince
- Snow Shoveling
- The First Sport in the World
- Seven in One Blow
- HSR = High-speed Rails
- Howard Thurston
- The Stars of the Sea
- Louis Braille
- Arthur and the Smith
- Astrid’s Life Changes
- Wangari Maathai
- Audrey and the Principal
- The Schoolhouse at Baines Village
- Dia de los Muertos
The additional questions are robust and ask students to incorporate multiple skills in developing answers. The questions will help drive critical thinking and class discussions involving increased textual complexity and understanding.
These additions to the current multiple-choice sets were designed to challenge students to critically analyze each reading passage. All of the questions have been aligned to the Common Core State Standards and correlated to both Bloom’s Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge scales.
All questions provide students with content support; hints, reasons, and/or sample answers are written for each question. The type of content feedback a student receives is dependent on the type of question.
Sample Question
