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 3 Gist: Students reading for the characters describe traits, feelings, and motivations, noting how characters’ actions add to the plot and move along the sequence of events toward the ending.

They consider:

 What is the main character’s most important personality trait?

 What does the main character need or want at the beginning of the story?

 How does the main character try to solve her problem?

 How do the other characters respond?

 What is the sequence of important events in the story?

 4 Gist: Students reading for the elements use specific details from the text, such as a character’s thoughts or words or actions, and descriptions of place to describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama.

They consider:

 How does the main character behave at the beginning of the story? Why?

 What bothers her most of all? Which details tell me this in these chapters?

 How does the setting play a role in the story or the characters’ actions?

 Why does the character’s behavior change from the beginning of the story to the end? What has she learned?

 What are the important events that lead up to the resolution?

 How do other characters help the main character or make the problem worse?

 5 Gist: Students reading for interactions between characters, settings, or events in a story or drama compare and contrast two or more of the above, using key details from the text.

They consider:

 What happens to the main characters in each chapter? By novel’s end? Why?

 What does the main character have in common with another?

 How are characters not alike?

 Where and when is there the most tension? Why?

 How can I use details to explain how the character is changing?

 When I visualize the settings of important scenes, what does that reveal about the characters?