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Facilitate reading comprehension and sharpen literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of activities and assessments covering Gina Berriault’s short story “The Stone Boy.” A plot-based quiz, a close reading worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the public domain narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in editable Word Document and printable PDF formats. By engaging with these materials, students will:

• Read for literal comprehension
• Consult reference materials to learn and verify word meanings as needed
• Choose the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences
• Evaluate the role setting plays in terms of advancing the story
• Explore how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop
• Evaluate whether the parents’ response to the tragedy is fair to the protagonist
• Apply knowledge of literary devices including foreshadowing, onomatopoeia, personification, simile, situational irony, and more
• Consider themes in context
• Support claims and inferences with relevant evidence and sound reasoning
• Write about literature with clarity, accuracy, and precision
• Come to class better prepared to discuss literature