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 

The Difficult Journey*

The Gulls of Salt Lake

Lexington

*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.

My First Baseball Game  updated 2016 (Cubs win!)

My Job

My New President

My Sister, the Soldier

Potawatomi Prairie

See Our Progress

Training for the Presidency