Questions to discuss over fiction text

Below are some higher level questions that you can use for discussion with your child's self-selected fiction book. 

Sample Guiding Questions for Process Standards in Fiction Text

• What do you look for when you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What important things are you thinking about as you read a fiction text? (Set a Purpose for Reading)
• What can you tell about the character from what he thinks or how he behaves? (Inferring)
• How do you feel about the character? Why do you feel that way? (Inferring)
• How do you imagine the setting of this story? (Visualizing)
• What is the big message of this story? (Inferring)
• How does this story make you think of your own life? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• Do the characters in your book make you think of someone else in your life? How? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• How does this story compare to ___________________? (Access and Use Prior Knowledge)
• What was the most important thing that happened in the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What action was being taken by the main character(s) of the story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• What influence did ________ have on _________? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• Why do you think the author included _________? (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• The big idea of this story was _______ because __________. (Infer and Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How does the story's theme help support your summary? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• How could you summarize this story? (Summarize to Determine Importance)
• When I put all of my thinking together, I learned________. (Synthesize)
• How did your thinking about the character change as your followed through their journey? (Synthesize)
• What did you learn from the events in this story? (Synthesize)