Asking your child the "Right" Questions!
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Asking your child the "right" questions is very important when helping your child with thinking deeper about the text.
Below you will find a list of some important questions. There is also a link to the questions that you may download to use as a guide for discussions at home. Remember to use the questions that are related to the genre of the book that your child is reading.
Open-Ended Questions for Nonfiction Text:
Open-Ended Questions for Fictional Text:
Below you will find a list of some important questions. There is also a link to the questions that you may download to use as a guide for discussions at home. Remember to use the questions that are related to the genre of the book that your child is reading.
Open-Ended Questions for Nonfiction Text:
- What is the author’s purpose for writing this text? How do you know this?
- How does the text structure assist the reader with better understanding the text?
- What is the theme of the text? Provide evidence to support your thinking.
- If this book was intended to teach the reader a lesson, did it succeed? Was something learned from reading this book, if so what? If not, why did the book fail as a teaching tool?
- Who is the intended audience for this text?
- Use your context clues to paraphrase one unfamiliar word that you read in the text.
Open-Ended Questions for Fictional Text:
- How does the author’s perspective affect how the events are told in the story?
- What is the theme of the text? Give evidence to support your response.
- Compare and Contrast the theme of this novel with another novel you read recently?
- What inferences can you make about the main character’s motivations in the novel?
- Use your context clues to paraphrase one unfamiliar word that you read in the text.
- What was the author’s purpose for writing this novel? How do you know this?
- Discuss key events in the story’s plot. What event would be the climax or turning point in the story?
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A Quick Guide to Open-Ended Questions |
The nonfiction and fiction open-ended questions used in the "Quick Guide to Open-Ended Questions" were created using a variety of sources, including, but not limited to questions from reading assessments that were created by individuals from Lancaster County School District, the SC Department of Education, and the Curriculum Corner website. However, the questions were paraphrased and rewritten to fit the content of this website.