How are _________
and __________ alike or What does the word
different? Be sure to support __________ mean?
your answer with evidence
from the text!
Think about ________________
(the story, a character, an event,
a setting, etc.). Make a
connection. It can be a text-to-
self, text-to-text, or text-to-
world connection.
Make a prediction! If the
story continued, what do you
think would happen next?
Summarize the text you
read.
How did ____________
feel when ___________?
How do you know?
What was your first
reaction to what you
read?
What was the problem in this
story? How did ________ solve
the problem? Be sure to support
your answer with evidence from
the text.
How can ________ be best
described? Use examples
from the text to show why
chose your answer.
Predict what _________ will
do next. Use examples from
the text to show why you
chose your answer.
Think about someone who did
something ________ (helpful,
brave, clever, difficult, etc). Tell
how that was like what
________ did in this story.
What did you think or
wonder about as you were
reading?

What probably would have Think about the problem in

happened if _________? Be this story. Would you have
sure to support your answer solved it the same way?
with evidence from the text! Why or why not?

What do you think was the most

important part of this story?
Why do you think it was
important? Use evidence from
the text to tell why!
Imagine you are writing a
letter to the author. What are
two questions you would ask
in your letter?

What lesson do you think the Was this story written to

author wanted us to learn entertain, inform, describe,
from reading this story? or persuade? How do you
know?

In this story, what was the

If you wanted to tell how the most important thing to _______
main character changed in this (a character)? How can you tell?
story, which event would you Use examples from the text to
write about? support your answer.