This is an adapted text from the original text The Black Cat, by Poe, using cognates and simplistic language to help struggling readers. It is great to use with ELL students, struggling readers, special education students, etc. Lexile level is approximately 410-600, based on the Lexile Analyzer. There are examples of figurative language bolded in the text, The 2 page text is chunked to help struggling readers, and to allow for the class to discuss comprehension topics after each chunk. Helps k