Choose a Skill/Strategy Guide to Analyze Stories

• Analyze/infer author's purpose and techniques
  
• Analyze/infer cause-effect relations
  
• Analyze/infer character traits
  
• Compare and contrast
  
• Infer the meaning of a word from context
  
• Dramatize a situation
  
• Identify elements of a story and summarize it
• Elements of Fiction: Comprehensive Reading or Writing Fiction
  
• Organize and write an extended response
  
• Identify and analyze factors that affect fluency
  
• Identify and give examples of genres
  
• Illustrate a story
  

• Make/explain an inference
  
• Locate and classify information from a story
  
• Identify, analyze, infer the main idea or theme
  
• Infer/analyze the motive for an action
  
• Identify parts of a story
  
• Infer/support a prediction
  
• Identify, analyze, and evaluate a problem and solution
  
• Identify and infer relationships
  
• Identify and analyze sequence
  
• Summarize
• Constructed Response Organizer 

FABLES FOLKTALES TRADITIONAL STORIES

The Ants and the Grasshopper*.

The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"

How the Firefly Got Its Light

Little Pink Riding Hood English / Spanish 

The Little Red Hen

Mama's Happy Christmas

The Tortoise and the Hare

The Turtle and the Rabbit

The Turtle and the Ducks

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?

HISTORICAL FICTION

The First Flag

Prairie Farmers      

Potawatomi Prairie

Spring is Coming  a Pioneer Family's Story

*This passage has been selected for use in PARCC diagnostic assessments. If your school is in a PARCC state, we recommend that you do not use this reading passage in instruction

REALISTIC FICTION

The Big Game

Flying

Letter to Grandmother

My First Baseball Game

My First Baseball Game with Questions and Answer Key

My Job

My New Brother

My Sister, the Soldier

My Summer

The New Family

Our Lemons

THEMATIC FICTION:

REALISTIC FICTION FOCUSING ON PROGRESS

A Better Community

Community Meeting

Community Meeting 

Community Progress

Making Progress

More Trees

My Community

See Our Progress