Practice these questions
when you read each day!
Fiction Questions:
- What is the problem in the story and how is it solved? Use a detail from the story to help explain your answer.
- Explain how people in the story feel and why they feel this way. Use details from the story to explain your answer.
- What lesson did a character learn? Use details from the story to explain your answer.
- Tell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story in your own words.
- Explain how illustrations contribute to and help you understand the story.
- How does a character act when he/she sees another character? What does he/she say and do?
- Tell if the title is a good title. Use details from the story to support your opinion.
- The author uses a specific word to describe an object or character. Use another word to describe the same thing. Tell why you chose the word.
- Describe the characters in a story (traits, feelings, or motivations) and how their actions contributed to the sequence of events.
- If you could rename the book, what would you call it? Use information from the book to explain your answer.
- Complete a cause an effect chart for two events in the book. Explain your chart using details from the story.
- Explain how a character changes in the story and the reason for the changes.
- Explain why the author wrote the book. Use at least two key ideas from the book in your answer.
- Describe the effects of an action. Use details from the book to explain your answer.
- Describe the connection between a series of events in the story.
- Summarize the story and explain the lesson it teaches.
- How do the character’s actions change what happens in the story? Use a detail from the story to support your answer.
- Explain why an element is important to the story. Support your answer by giving details.
- Do you agree with an action in the text? Explain your answer. Use details from the text to support your answer.
- Find an important phrase or sentence from the story and tell what it means.
- Find an important phrase or sentence from the story and tell what it means.
- Identify two reasons why characters agree or disagree. State if you agree or disagree.
24. Write a brief summary of the text. Include at least four key ideas.
25. Explain what a character does when there is a problem. Use at least two details from the book to support your answer.
26. Provide two main ideas of this book and support each main idea with a key detail.
27. Explain two ways the characters use features of the setting to live. Use a detail from the story to support each way.
28. Describe how a character likely feels when he sees something dangerous. Use a specific detail from the story to support your answer.
29. Identify an important word in the text and explain its meaning. Write about a clue that might be used to determine the meaning of the word.
30. Identify an important sentence in the text. Explain why the sentence is important. Use a detail from the book to support your answer.
Non-fiction Questions:
31. What is important to learn from this book? How do you know?
32. Look at a subtopic in the text and tell about the most important ideas.
33. Explain how a picture helps you understand a part of the text.
34. If you could rename the book, what would you call it? Use information from the book to explain your answer.
35. Create three questions that could be answered with what you learned from the text.
36. Identify the main purpose of the text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
37. Describe one item from the text. Use information and pictures from the book to support your answer.
38. What question does the information in the book answer?
39. Describe one thing that you learned from this text. Use information and pictures from the book to support your answer.
40. Identify three text features that were used in this book. Explain how these text features supported your understanding of the topic.
41. Provide two main ideas in the book and support each main idea with a key detail.
32. Look at a subtopic in the text and tell about the most important ideas.
33. Explain how a picture helps you understand a part of the text.
34. If you could rename the book, what would you call it? Use information from the book to explain your answer.
35. Create three questions that could be answered with what you learned from the text.
36. Identify the main purpose of the text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
37. Describe one item from the text. Use information and pictures from the book to support your answer.
38. What question does the information in the book answer?
39. Describe one thing that you learned from this text. Use information and pictures from the book to support your answer.
40. Identify three text features that were used in this book. Explain how these text features supported your understanding of the topic.
41. Provide two main ideas in the book and support each main idea with a key detail.