Hatchet Common Core Comprehension Questions with Vocabulary!

This is the ultimate Hatchet bundle! Comprehension & Vocabulary!

This document includes higher level comprehension questions for each chapter of the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.

Questions were created based on the common core standards for literature and include short answer, analyzing text, multiple choice with multiple answers, and much more. If you are looking for something that goes beyond traditional comprehension questions and asks your students to think deeper, then this is your answer.

Each chapter includes:

1. Short answer questions that require students to use textual evidence and cite page numbers to justify their answers.

2. Passages that require students to highlight the answer to each question in a selected passage.

3. Multiple choice questions that test reading comprehension and knowledge of literary devices such as point of view, conflict, flashback, foreshadow, figurative language, and more.

4. Multiple choice questions that assess reading skills such as summarizing, analyzing character traits, using context clues, sequencing, inferencing, etc.

Answer Key included. Some answers may vary.

This document also includes a link to a Google doc with vocabulary activities for the novel Hatchet. Each activity is also linked to a Google Slides presentation that includes the definition and picture(s) of each word. All of the work is done for you!

Activities and Skills Include:

Synonyms and Antonyms

Examples and Non-examples

Writing original sentences

Drawing a sketch

Word Associations

Analogies

Matching

Cause and Effect

Evidence from the TExt

Fill in the Blank

Vocabulary Words included in these activities:

Chapters 1 & 2: audible, grimace, massive, tenderness, compass, horizon, rigid, tundra, embarrassing, legal, panic, turbulence, extension, lurch, spasm, and vague

Chapters 3 & 4: abate, agony, coarse, desperate, frustration, glittering, hordes, hummocks, incredible, remnants, naturalist, spiraling, squint, vampires, wallow

Chapters 5 & 6: amphibious, asset, blister, device, interlaced, diminish, frantic, glacial, jumble, ledge, pitiful, pulverize, twinge, viciously

Chapters 7 & 8: apparent, crude, doze, fierce, gorge, imbed, indicate, recede, slit, survive

Chapters 9 & 10: blaze, convulse, depression, dormant, enormous, exasperation, focus, gratified, ignite, precious, smoldered

Chapters 11 & 12: abrupt, gnarled, bluff, initially, literally, lunged, fainter, depressed, staggering, tapered, flailing, persistent

Chapters 13 & 14: biology, corrosive, exult, carp, impaired, rectify, refract, sear, sulfurous, vital

Chapters 15 & 16: sarcasm, flurry, bellow, stabilize, camouflage, craved, boughs, gusts, unduly, dung, retrieve, bound

Most chapters include 2 pages of activities.

No new vocabulary words for Chapters 17-epilogue.

When item is purchased, Google doc links are provided for comprehension questions and answer key and vocabulary activities and slides. Document is easily shareable for students! Easy to post on Google Classroom or other digital platforms. May be completed digitally or printed out for students. Both documents are editable to meet your needs.

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