reading questions to ask - miss summers 4th grade...

in this freebie • Ideas on how I use this freebie • A one pager of questions to ask during or after reading • Questions to ask posters • One set in black and white • One set in color


to the teacher • One-Pager •  I put together this one-pager in

response to families asking how they could help their students to become better readers. •  I place the one-pager in their

take home binders for them to refer to throughout the year

• Posters •  There are two sets of posters,

one in black and white (to save ink) and the other in color. •  I hang these posters in my

classroom as reminders for students and for them to use while completing their reader’s response entries.


Questions to Ask About Reading

author’s purpose asking questions

monitoring yourself inference

SUMMARY & MAIN IDEA connections

•  Is the author trying to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader?

•  What message does the author want the reader to know?

•  Why did the author write this piece?

•  What questions do you have about what you read?

•  What is something that you would ask the author?

•  What else would you like to know about this topic?

•  What do you think was the most important part?

•  What background knowledge do you have that relates to this text?

•  Did you ask yourself questions as you read?

•  Did you reread sections that were difficult?

•  What did you do when you came to a word you didn’t know?

•  What is a generalization you can make about the main character?

•  What is something you can figure out about the story that the author didn’t tell you?

•  What is the main idea? What are two supporting details?

•  What would be a good title for this selection?

•  What happened at the climax of the story?

•  Write a summary including beginning, middle, and end.

•  What does this passage remind you of?

•  What is another book you have read that has something in common with this one?

•  What books have you read that have a similar theme or message?

•  What is something you have learned this year that relates to the story?


Author’s purpose

•  Is the author trying to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader?

• What message does the author want the reader to know?

• Why did the author write

this piece?


asking questions • What questions do you

have about what you read? • What is something that you

would ask the author? • What else would you like to

know about this topic? • What do you think was the

most important part? ©2014TeachingInTheFastLaneLLC

monitoring yourself

• What background knowledge do you have that relates to this text?

• Did you ask yourself questions as you read?

• Did you reread sections that were difficult?

• What did you do when you came to a word you didn’t know?


inference • What is a generalization you can make about the main character?

• What is something you can figure out about the story that the author didn’t tell you?


summary & main idea


• What is the main idea? What are two supporting details?

• What would be a good title for this selection?

• What happened at the climax of the story?

• Write a summary including beginning, middle, and end.

connections • What does this passage

remind you of?

• What is another book you have read that has something in common with this one?

• What books have you read that have a similar theme or message?

• What is something you have learned this year that relates to the story? ©2014TeachingInTheFastLaneLLC

• Is the author trying to persuade, inform, or entertain the reader?

• What message does the author want the reader to know?

• Why did the author write this piece?



• What questions do you have about what you read?

• What is something that you would ask the author?

• What else would you like to know about this topic?

• What do you think was the most important part?


• What background knowledge do you have that relates to this text?

• Did you ask yourself questions as you read? • Did you reread sections that were difficult? • What did you do when you came to a word you didn’t know?


• What is a generalization you can make about the main character?

• What is something you can figure out about the story that the author didn’t tell you?


• What is the main idea? What are two supporting details?

• What would be a good title for this selection?

• What happened at the climax of the story? • Write a summary including beginning, middle, and end.


• What does this passage remind you of?

• What is another book you have read that has something in common with this one? • What books have you read

that have a similar theme or message?

• What is something you have learned this year that relates to the story?

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