7/23/2019 Kindergarten Become a Better Reader Literary

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Help your child become a better

READER

Questions to ask your student while reading

fiction/literary texts

Questions about key details in the textThe key details are

the most important parts of the story If certain key details

were taken away the story would be different

oWhy was _____part of the story important?

Retell stories including the key details

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What happened at the beginning? Middle? End?

oWhat was the problem in the story? What was the

solution?

Who are the characters? What is the setting? What are the

major events?

Ask students questions about unknown wordsuse the

story to try and figure out what the unknown words mean

Who is the author? Illustrator? What does the author do?

What does the illustrator do?

Ask students about the pictures

wh ts h ppening in the

picture? How does it show what the author wrote?