Choose a Skill/Strategy Guide to Analzye 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 Ants and the Grasshopper*

A Better Community

The Big Game

The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!"

Changing Our Street (realistic fiction)

Community Meeting

Community Progress

The First Flag

Flying

How the Firefly Got Its Light

Letter to Grandmother

*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

Little Pink Riding Hood English / Spanish 

The Little Red Hen

Making Progress

Mama's Happy Christmas

More Trees

My Community

My First Baseball Game

My Job

My New Brother

My Sister, the Soldier

My Summer

The New Family

Our Lemons

Prairie Farmers

Potawatomi Prairie

See Our Progress

Spring is Coming

The Tortoise and the Hare

The Turtle and the Rabbit

The Turtle and the Ducks

Why Did Mamma Change Her Mind?