Fiction Interpretation Guides

from the Polk Bros. Foundation Center for Urban Education

These guides can be used with any text. 

They include graphic organizers into which students input relevant ideas and information.

Most of the guides end with a concise constructed response task.  

If students complete the guide independently and then

           pair, compare, repair (improve), they will learn more!

FICTION ANALYSIS GUIDES

Analyze Character Development

• Compare the Feelings of the Narrator and a Character.
• What did one character learn?
• Compare and Contrast Characters.
• Story Interpreter: Feelings
• Infer Character Traits.
• Write the journal of a character.
• Chart to Show How Characters Respond to Events.

Story Structure and Author’s Techniques

• Analyze The Narrator’s Effects On The Mood Of A Story.
• Analyze The Narrator’s Point Of View In Two Stories.
• Analyze and Infer Causes and Effects in a Story or History.
• Story Planners Learn the Writer’s Craft.
• Write the Sequel.

Theme – Comprehensive Analysis of a Story

• Sequence Events to Trace the Plot, Which Leads to the Theme.
• Identify and Support the Theme of a Story.
• What is the theme of the story?
• Analyze Stories that Teach Lessons.
• Compare and contrast how two texts develop the same theme.
• Analyze Fiction Comprehensively

More Fiction Analysis Guides and Sources:

• Analyze Characters Response Then Write a Journal.
• Analyze Character Traits.
• Analyze Effects of Narrator on Story..
• Analyze Fiction Comprehensively.
• Analyze Theme.
• Analyze Two Stories Lessons.
• Analyze What An Illustration Adds to a Story.
• Common Questions for Thoughtful Fiction Readers..
• Compare and Contrast with a Variation on the Venn.
• Compare the Feelings of a Character and Narrator.
• Complete Story Map.
• Fiction Characteristics and Actions.
• How Do Character Choices and Changes Help You Understand Theme..
• Identify and Infer Relationships.
• Identify and Support Theme of Story.
• Identify Parts of Story and Infer Theme.
• Make a Literature Techniques Glossary.
• Predict with Evidence from a Story..
• Primary Picture Word Bank.
• Primary Story Reader.
• Read a Story Thoroughly and Thoughtfully.
• Smart Chart Feelings.
• Story Interpreter Feelings..
• Story Reader.
• Summarize a Story and Infer a Theme.
• What Characters Say Can Show Feelings.