Helping tips to read a story

1. Topic

   What we read or write about

2. Main Topic

   The main focus of the text (what a text is about)

   Main topic can be a person, a place, an animal, a thing

3. Setting

   Where and when a story takes place

4. Events

   Things that happen in a story

5. Character

   A person, animal or thing that thinks, speaks, acts, and feels

6. Questions that help discover key details about the character in a story

• Who is the character?
• What does the character look like?
• What does the character say?
• What does the character do?

7. Order words (to indicate the order of the events in the story)

  Words like first, next, and last that explain the order

** A good story needs to have a beginning, a middle, and an end **

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