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)
