Questions to Ask Your Student Before, During and After Reading
Before Reading:
At beginning of new book:
What do you think this book will be about? Why do you think that?
What characters do you think might be in this story?
What do you know about the topic of this book? (Have you ever been camping/ seen
a ghost/been to a farm, etc)
Does the topic of this book remind you of anything you know or have done?
What questions would you like to ask the author before you read this book?
What are you wondering about as you look at the cover and back of your book?
If continuing a book student has been reading:
What has happened so far in this story?
What do you think will happen next? Why?
What questions would you like to ask the author about this book?
Do you have any questions about what has happened so far?
During Reading:
What do you think will happen next? Why?
How do you think the character will handle this situation?
Why do you think the character did __________________? How do you know?
What must have happened here that the author didn’t tell us?
What emotions is the character feeling? How do you know?
What would you have done if you were the character?
Has anything like this ever happened to you? Does it remind you of something?
How would you have felt if that happened to you?
Do you know someone like this character?
How are you like/different than this character?
As you’ve been reading, what pictures have been in your mind?
If you were in the story, what would you hear, taste, smell or feel?
What does the character/setting look like in your mind?
Tell me what you were imagining in your mind as you read that page/paragraph.
Is there anything you’re wondering about right now?
Can you put what you’ve just read in your own words?
What’s happened to this character so far?
Tell me the most important things you read today in order of how they happened.