1. Reading comprehension—interpreting character feelings, motivations, and relationships through inference and quotation evidence
2. Literary techniques—identifying similes, metaphors, personification; analyzing short sentence use and symbolic meaning
3. Narrative analysis—understanding structure (dream opening), sequencing events, identifying theme and mood, emotional tone evaluation
4. Grammar and vocabulary—verb choices, key descriptive phrases, implication of expressions like “just school“ or “climb back into the forest“
5. Character insight—recognizing Sophie’s fear, curiosity, loneliness, and emotional complexity through thought and dialogue analysis
6. Creative writing—opening to a story titled “The Forest,“ setting description, plot intrigue, sensory language, and suspenseful or magical elements