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.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
