Process Questions
1. What happened first?
2. What happened next?
3. Has a significant event occurred?
4. Does this event relate to the main character’s goal or
problem?
5. Does this event make an important character change
his thinking or actions?
6. Why did the author include this event—to add
interesting details, or to affect the story’s outcome?
7. Does someone need to know about this event to
understand the story?
8. What could have happened if this story event never
occurred?
9. How could the story have changed if the selected
event never happened?
10. What is a self-created significant event that would
replace a significant story event?
11. What alternative events would follow?
12. How does this created sequence affect the
original plot?
Fifth Grade
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