Looking for a quick, meaningful way to assess your students' reading comprehension and literary analysis skills? This Fiction Common Formative Assessment (CFA) is designed for grades 4–6 and features a compelling, high-interest narrative passage about a determined deaf musician named Mathias. It is the perfect tool to evaluate students' understanding of plot structure, conflict, theme, and text-based inferences.Designed with classroom practicality in mind, this resource includes two differentia