Students use important details from a passage to create questions in order to further their understanding of what the important

information is. It is a postreading strategy.

Using this strategy, students learn 1) how to ask and compose questions and 2) how to pick out important information from a text.

1. Discuss how to write questions. a. A question has an answer. b. A good question begins with a question word like who, what, when, where, or why. c. A good question asks about important information in the story. 2. The teacher selects a short paragraph and models writing questions about important information in the text. 3. The students write questions from what they read. 4. The students answer their questions 5. Compare! With each other and the teacher.

Excerpt from The City of Ashes By Cassandra Clare: Alas, said the Queen of the Seelie Court. Her expression was sharp with a sort of cruel delight, and Clary wondered if it werent a kiss she wanted so much as simply to watch them all squirm in discomfort. Im afraid that wont do either. Well, Im not kissing the mundane, said Jace. Id rather stay down here and rot. Forever? said Simon. Forevers an awfully long time. Jace raised his eyebrows. I knew it, he said. You want to kiss me, dont you? Simon threw up his hands in exasperation. Of course not. But if I guess its true what they say, observed Jace. There are no straight men in the trenches. Thats atheists, jerk, said Simon furiously. There are no atheists in the trenches. While this is all very amusing, said the Queen coolly, leaning forward, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires. The cruel delight in her face and voice had sharpened, and her words seemed to stab into Clarys ears like needles. Only that and nothing more.