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Story Elements
What Makes a Story Fiction?
Essential Questions
• What do self-managers look like?
• What do writers do?
• What strategies do good readers use?
• Why is it important to listen?
• How can using effective speaking skills improve
communication?
• What is active listening?
• Where do writers get ideas to use in their writing?
• Why do writers consider their audience and purpose
before writing?
• How can fluent reading help me be a better reader?
• How does vocabulary impact a writer’s message?
• How does reading provide answers to questions?
• Do non-fiction texts, informational and procedural, promote
critical thinking in reading and writing?
• What have you read that is like what you’re trying to write?
• What is the difference between fiction and non-fiction?
• What are the purposes of reading nonfiction?
• How do nonfiction text features help you comprehend the
text?
• How do writers organize a procedural text to clearly provide
information?
Why do we tell stories? What makes a good story?
• How does the writing process help us become better
writers?
Unit Specific
• Can fiction reveal truth? Should a story teach you
something?
• What text to self-connections can you make?
• How do text to self-connections help you understand the
text?
• What strategies will you use, as a reader, to predict what
will happen next?
• How are main ideas and details used to create a summary?
• How do writers use language to make personal
experiences meaningful to themselves and others?
• How does an author hook a reader?
• Why is it important to include supporting details in
writing?

Personal Narrative Sample
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