These assessment questions for The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.

Reproducible Reading Study Guides that give students the background and support they need to understand and enjoy literature. With these reading guides, your students will practice reading comprehension skills, sharpen their vocabulary and learn to identify literary elements.

Connect students with events from the past by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons with this e-book guide about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism. The Watsons visit their grandma in Birmingham, intending to have their troubled son stay with her to learn some discipline, but return home when there is a bombing in a local church. This literary instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the historical events the story is based on. This resource supports Common Core Learning Standards and is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.

Students analyze The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions and suggested answers.

These assessment questions for The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.