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Monkey’s Paw | Grade 6 Reading Comprehension

Monkey’s Paw | Grade 6 Reading Comprehension

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Product Description

Help students strengthen reading comprehension by exploring how an author’s word choice and descriptive language create tone and mood. This Grade 6 reading worksheet uses a passage from W. W. Jacobs’s public-domain short story The Monkey’s Paw to help students notice how descriptive details influence the reader’s experience.

Through close reading, annotation, and text-based questions, students will identify the author’s tone, describe the mood created by the passage, and use textual evidence to explain their thinking.

Designed for sixth-grade readers, this resource supports literary analysis while helping students develop the skills needed to explain not just what a passage says, but how an author’s craft shapes its meaning and effect.

What’s Included

  • Before You Read: Prepare students to notice descriptive language and consider how it shapes a reader’s experience.

  • Annotation Guide: Help students mark important words and phrases that contribute to tone and mood.

  • The Passage: Explore an excerpt from W. W. Jacobs’s public-domain short story The Monkey’s Paw.

  • Why This Passage Matters: Connect the author’s descriptive choices to the atmosphere and overall reading experience.

  • Comprehension Questions: Guide students in identifying tone and mood, analyzing descriptive details, and supporting their interpretations with text evidence.

  • Self Check: Encourage students to review their understanding of tone, mood, and evidence-based responses.

Skills Practiced

  • Identifying tone and mood

  • Analyzing word choice and descriptive language

  • Recognizing how details create atmosphere

  • Annotating literary text

  • Citing textual evidence

  • Explaining how an author’s choices affect the reader

  • Developing evidence-based written responses

Grade Level

Grade 6

Common Core State Standards

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.

Perfect For

  • Sixth-grade ELA and reading instruction

  • Close-reading practice

  • Literary analysis lessons

  • Tone and mood mini-lessons

  • Text annotation activities

  • Reading comprehension centers

  • Independent practice or small-group instruction

  • Reviewing textual evidence and author’s craft

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