Short Stories

Welcome to Short Stories!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Short Stories course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Albert's Short Stories course is organized within the Practice tab, which includes 3 themes organized chronologically by time period.

Our Short Stories course includes 3 themes:

Each theme contains numerous short stories from that time period, labeled by title and year published and identified as either Foundational (6th-8th) or Advanced (9th-12th).

Each story contains the same subtopics:

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter. Albert’s Short Stories questions are aligned to Common Core Standards for English Language Arts. 

This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.

In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Albert’s Poetry course include 2 types of tags, reading skills tags and reading content tags.  These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as “character-analysis” or “themes-and-motifs”. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guidelevel.

Short Stories uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills. 

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