'Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale' - By Mark Twain | Reading Level 8-12 'Thrown Away' - By Rudyard Kipling | Reading Level 7-11 'The Son' - By Hermann Hesse | Reading Level 7-11 'A Piece of Steak' - By Jack London | Reading Level 7-11 'A Respectable Woman' - By Kate Chopin | Reading Level 7-11 'A Mystery of Heroism' - By Stephen Crane | Reading Level 6-10 '2 B R 0 2 B' - By Kurt Vonnegut | Reading Level 6-10 'The Lottery Ticket' - By Anton Chekhov | Reading Level 5-9 'The Tell-Tale Heart' - By Edgar Allan Poe Andersen | Reading Level 5-9 'The Nightingale and the Rose' - By Oscar Wilde | Reading Level 5-9 'The Story of Keesh' - By Jack London | Reading Level 5-9 'The Cat That Walked by Himself' - By Rudyard Kipling | Reading Level 4-8 Spugg' - By Stephen Leacock | Reading Level 4-8 'The Fir Tree' - By Hans Christian Andersen | Reading Level 3-7 'The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger' - By L. 'That Spot' - By Jack London | Reading Level 3-7 'Two Leaves' - By Felix Salten | Reading Level 3-7 These questions cover a range of reading skills from comprehension and inferring to interpreting themes and identifying figurative language techniques.

I also prepared ten multiple-choice and long response questions for each text. This collection will nurture your students' love of reading and storytelling.

I chose stories with ironic endings, interesting twists, and clever plot movements. I tried to select stories that students would find highly interesting. Written by some of the greatest authors in history, these stories are short enough to cover in a single class period, and rich enough to warrant study. These reading activities are perfect for classroom use. This page features 22 of my favorite short stories with questions.

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