What makes a story good, our class list.

As a class we made groups and talked about what we thought would make a story good. We presented in class about what our findings were, and from that we all regrouped and decided what our top 2 findings were in our own groups. 
We had to place them on a spreadsheet, and this was our findings for our whole class. I prioritized them into what I thought was most to least important:


--Grammar and Structure
-- Introduction: Needs to catch your attention and make you want to keep reading to find out what happens.
-- When it is made for the reader to understand. Target audience.
--Pace: How fast the story moves shouldn't be to fast or to slow.
--Be logical: a story should make sense.
--Emotion: The ability to connect to the emotions of what is happening.
--Creative: Should be something new that makes story more interested and different.
--Imagination: Being creative makes it more interesting to read, and more engaging.
--Using good resources to find legit information.
--Good choice of words but has to make sense.
--Conclusion that summarizes main points of the story.
--Has a good hook in the beginning.
--Creative body could make readers not loose their interests in your story.
--Transition from one point to another.
--Clear and interesting ending.
--Attractive clues that makes you want to read more.
--Put facts from least to most important. 
--Mystery: don't make the topic be extremely obvious. allow the reader to actually think about it and try to figure things out for themselves.
--Personalized stories with your own words and ideas are more meaningful and interesting.