A. What does the story make you think about?

B. What feelings do you experience?

C. What questions occur to you as you read or listen?

D. What predictions do you make?

E. What pictures occur in your head?

F. Does this book remind you of anything else?

G. How did the author get you to think?

H. How did the author get you to feel happy, scared, confused, excited, etc.

I. What did you really like about this book?

J. How do you feel about the characters in this book?

K. How did you feel after you finished reading your story compared to the earlier feelings you had as you were reading?

L. What aspects of the writer's craft especially appealed to you?

M. Quote the sentence or sentences that brought the book alive for you. Can you tell why it worked?

N. Who do you know who would like this book? Why?

O. In what ways can you identify with the main character?

P. What phrases, expressions, vocabulary or points of writing style did you learn from the author that you plan to use in your own writing?

Q. How much did you personally agree or disagree with he way the characters thought or acted or the kinds of beliefs or values they held?

R. Were there any real life issues that made you think? Discuss them.

S. How would you have revised the story to make it better?