Reading

With reading fiction, and determining author's meaning, you should develop the following skills and be able to write about them:

• Look at character traits and see how they are related to the problem of the story.
• Study a character to see how they change, and the ways they act differently with different people and in different situations.
• Look at character motivation and understand how that can lead to theme.
• Find out what the major conflict is in the book, and pay attention to how the main character deals with this problem.
• Be open to seeing the text differently through other readers’ eyes and deepening or changing your interpretation.
• Connect ideas to form bigger theories.
• Find the theme statement, “the heart statement,” of the book and see how different characters interact with that theme.
• Look at what the author did not choose to write to see the importance in what chose to write.
• Support your ideas with evidence.