Short Stories & Excerpts with Questions

Provide your students with reading and answering questions practice. Each excerpt used has been released by the publisher and is available online or is on the public domain.

Each set contains the excerpt, student questions, and answer key.

Excerpt- Wings of Fire

Short Story- The Lady, or the Tiger?

Excerpt: The Hunger Games

 

Play- “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”

Mood Guide for “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”

Excerpt- Flowers for Algernon

 

“What’s the Worst that Could Happen?”

Short Story- “The Ingredients”

Reader’s Theater: The Gift of the Magi