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Discussion Topics
Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2002
The following guideline should help you develop questions to ask
during the read-aloud session in order to foster increased student
participation and improve story comprehension. For advanced grade
levels, you may wish to review a list of Bloom's taxonomy question stems
for more ideas.
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1. Predicting Outcomes |
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Based on the title, what do you think book is about? |
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What do you think will happen next? |
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2. Making Inferences and Grasping Implied Ideas |
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What kind of person is the King? Why? |
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What lets us know that the boy is scared? |
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3. Appraising Soundness of Ideas |
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What plan did the mice have? Was this a wise, or unwise idea? |
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Can you think of a better way to solve Ted's problem? |
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What would you do if it were you? |
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4. Comparing Similarities and Differences |
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How is Sally different from Susan? |
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What are two things that the children have in common? |
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5. Distinguishing Real from Make-Believe |
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Could these things really happen? |
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What kinds of things on this page are make-believe? |
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6. Seeing Cause and Effect Relationships |
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What caused Bobby to ask that? |
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Because Ellen did that, what happened? |
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