“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”
C Level Fiction Questions
Thinking within the Text Retelling
o What is the main idea of the story?
o What are some key details from the story? (2 to 3)
o How did the story end?
o What happened before or after ________________?
o Who are some of the characters in the story?
o What is the setting of the story? Fluency
o What punctuation do you notice on page __________?
o How does this punctuation help you read? (pausing, voice inflection etc.)
o What are these marks called? (point out quotation marks) Why did the author use them?
o What did you notice about (a bolded word from the text)? How does the author want you to read that word?
Thinking beyond the Text Predicting
o During Reading – How do you think the book will end?
o What else might the characters like or do?
o After reading the text, predict what might happen next or what the character will like or do. What clues helped you with this prediction? Making Connections
o How are the characters the same as you?
o What does this story remind you of?
o Can you think of another book that is similar to this one?
o How is the (topic, characters, ending) similar to (title of another book)?
o How are the characters and what happens to them in this story the same or different as in a story that you know?
Synthesizing
o Before Reading – What do you know about (topic of book)?
o What did you learn about __________ after reading this book?
o What are the characters doing in this picture?
o What did you notice about all the things the characters were doing? Inferring
o How were the characters feeling in the book? How do you know?
o What pictures helped you know __________? How did the pictures help you?
o How did the author show ___________?
o Why do you think __________?
o Why did the character ______________? How do you know?
Guided Reading Goal Questions
Thinking about the Text
o Analyzing
o Why do you think the book was called ____________?
o What was the same about the ________ in the book?
o What did you notice was different? (change in pattern, text features, etc.)
o What kind of story (genre) is this?
o How do you know that ______________? (example: How do you know that Mom thought the boy had done a good job?)
o What happened at the beginning of the story? What happened at the end?
o What is an author? What is an illustrator?
o Critiquing
o What did you like/dislike about this (book, beginning, characters, ending)?
o What did you like/dislike about the illustrations in the book?
C Level Nonfiction Questions
What do you already know about this topic? (prior knowledge)
What do you think will happen next from reading the beginning?
How does this book remind you of another book you have read about ______?
What connections can you make to other books?
Have you read or heard other books read about _______?
What is something new you have learned from reading this book?
What was the most interesting thing about this book to you?
What happened first in the text? next? last?
What connections can you make to other books about this topic?
Why was the title a good one for this story?
What do you think of this book? What was interesting about it?
What does this picture/ map, etc. mean?