• 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 

The Astronaut's Diary

The Challenge

Changing Transportation Routes

The Different Bird

The Election

The Food Change

The Gift

The Hero

The History Mystery

I Like Plants

A Mouse Chooses--variation on City Mouse and Country Mouse fable

The Lion and the Spider*

*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

The Little Red Hen

Letter from Chicago

Lincoln's Choice

Making a Difference

The Missing Money

My Community

My Cousin's Lesson

My Father's Miracle

My First Baseball Game with Questions and Answer Key

My New President

My Painting

The New Student

Pigeon Express*

Potawatomi Prairie

Prairie Farmers     

Multiple Choice Questions based on Prairie Farmers

The Prairie Project

A Proud Flight   The story of Icarus

The Quarterback

Summer

The Technology Trip

The Train

Traveling with Lewis and Clark

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?