Directions: Pick a Question from Either the Front Or Back of This Paper. Your Response

Fiction Questions

Directions: Pick a question from either the front or back of this paper. Your response can be written or typed. It must include the book title and question at the top of the paper and be a minimum of half a page. Your response needs to include text evidence.

1. Describe one action of a character. What did you learn about the character based on that action?

2. Describe the problem and explain how the character resolved it. Support your answer with text evidence.

3. Describe how the character changed from the beginning of the story to the end. Cite text evidence.

4. If you were the main character, would you have done things differently? How? Why?

5. What advice would you give a particular character and why?

6. If you eliminated one of the characters, who would it be and how would the story change?

7. If you could trade places with one of the characters, who would it be and why?

8. Compare two characters in the book or compare yourself to a character. You may use a Venn Diagram.

9. Did you learn anything new about the characters? If yes, explain what you learned. How did it affect your viewpoint of the character?

10. Describe the mood/tone of the chapter. Include details to support the mood.

11. What is the author's purpose? Is it to inform, persuade, or entertain? Explain how the author is using the text to inform, persuade, or entertain.

12. Summarize the chapter that you read. What were the most important events and why?

13. Think about the character’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. What conclusion can you draw about the character based on these things? Cite text evidence.

14. Think about something in the story you had to figure out, or come to a conclusion about, on your own. What was your conclusion and what clues led you to your conclusion?

15. Make a prediction for what you think will happen next in the story? Include evidence, or clues, to support your prediction.

16. What do you think would happen if the author wrote a sequel? Explain your thinking.

17. Identify a cause and effect relationship in the story. Explain the relationship and support your thinking with text evidence.

18. Give an example of a theme from your book. Explain the theme and cite text evidence to support your thinking.

19. Describe a lesson you learned from the story. Explain why you learned it. Support your answer with text evidence.

20. Identify an example of figurative language and explain why the author included it. Write down the example and label it as an idiom, personification, alliteration, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, simile, or metaphor.

21. Pretend you are interviewing the author. What 4 questions would you ask the author? Write how you think the author might answer.

22. What connections did you make as you read? Explain the connection you had and why.

Nonfiction Questions

Directions: Pick a question from either the front or back of this paper. Your

response can be written or typed. It must include the book title and question at

the top of the paper and be a minimum of half a page. Your response needs to

include text evidence.

1. Was the author trying to persuade you to change your mind in this text? If so, explain how? Cite text evidence to support your thinking.
2. Do you think bias exists in this book/article? Is the topic presented fairly? Why/why not?
3. Describe the author’s viewpoint citing specific examples. Do you agree or disagree with them? Explain why.
4. Did you change your mind about anything after reading this text? Describe how your schema changed.
5. What connections did you make as you read? Explain the connection you had and why.
6. What surprised you about this topic? Why?
7. How can you use the information you have learned?
8. Does this book make you want to learn more about this topic? Why or why not?
9. Including the main idea and important details, summarize your book or a chapter in your book.
10. Describe some professions related to the topic of your book. What kinds of work do these people do?
11. What cause and effect relationship did you learn about? Identify and explain the cause and effect relationship citing specific examples from the text.
12. What was the most important thing you learned? Explain your thinking.
13. Explain how three different text features helped you understand this book. (headings, subheadings, glossary, keywords, bullets, illustrations/photographs, captions, diagrams, labels, maps, charts, timelines, or graphs) Identify the text feature and explain how it helped you.
14. Draw, label, and explain something new that you learned about.
15. Identify 3 words you did not know when reading. Cite the sentence the word was in. Circle the context text clues used in the sentence. After looking up the definition, write the word in a new sentence relating to the topic of the book.
16. What are 4 interesting facts you learned by reading the selection? Explain how they were interesting.
17. Would the book be different if it had been written ten years ago? Fifty years ago? Why or why not?