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in this freebie
• I deas on how I use this
freebie
• A one pager of
questions to ask
during or after
reading
• Q uestions to ask
posters
• One set in black and
white
• One set in color
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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.
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 Questions to Ask
About Reading
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?
monitoring yourself
•  What background knowledge do
you have that relates to this
text?
  character?
•  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?
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.
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?
inference
•  What is a generalization you
can make about the main
•  What is something you can
figure out about the story
that the author didn’t tell you?
• 
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?
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 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?
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 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?
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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?
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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?

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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.
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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?  
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• 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?

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• 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  
• 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?
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• 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?
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• 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.©2014TeachingInTheFastLaneLLC  
•  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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