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 

Columbus and the Egg historical fiction about an event showing Columbus as a smart person

A Good Student  realistic fiction about starting high school

I Like Plants

John's Bright Idea

A Mouse Chooses--variation on City Mouse and Country Mouse fable (text is at 5th grade level but task --create a fable--is adaptable to upper grades)

Making a Difference

My Father's Miracle

My First Baseball Game  updated 2016 (Cubs win!)

My Painting

My Summer

Potawatomi Prairie

The Red Apples

The Train Ride