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In Cold Blood: Cloze Procedure
What is the reading level of your language arts or English class? If you're not sure if In Cold Blood would be an appropriate reading level for your kids, give them this cloze procedure. They read the complete reading selection once, and...
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's groundbreaking work in the world of nonfiction literature, is the focus of a quick review resource. Readers solve a crossword puzzle that offers clues about the book's characters and events.
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In Cold Blood, Part 1: Fun Trivia Quiz
While I don't recommend this Fun Trivia Quiz on In Cold Blood for a class assignment, you may suggest your readers use it to self-assess their basic understanding of the work. It includes 15 multiple choice and true/false questions that...
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In Cold Blood Part 2: Fun Trivia Quiz
A quick and easy way to assess your classes' basic reading comprehension, this quiz is one section of a larger master quiz on the novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. While most of the questions deal with important aspects of the novel,...
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In Cold Blood: A During Reading Activity
Following the method used by Truman Capote, class members research a major character from his novel, In Cold Blood, and then conduct an interview with that character. The resulting research is used to craft a newspaper article about the...
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In Cold Blood
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Capote's In Cold Blood. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA): Pre-Reading In Cold Blood
Start your unit by reading the "Ballade des Pendus," by the character Villon. The class makes predictions, discusses what they might already know about the text, and reads the selection together. There are step-by-step plans detailed...
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"Desk Top Teaching" - Word Interrogation
Don't let your class get tripped up on the tricky words in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood! Instead, assign each member of the class one or two words and each can be an expert. Explicit directions are included, as well as a list of...
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Author's Calendar: Truman Capote
The creator of the "nonfiction novel," Truman Capote, who established his career as a Southern gothic writer, crossed the line between journalism and fiction. This biography provides his background and information about his writing and...