Discussion Topics

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

• Based on the title, what do you think book is about?
• What do you think will happen next?

2. Making Inferences and Grasping Implied Ideas

• What kind of person is the King? Why?
• What lets us know that the boy is scared?

3. Appraising Soundness of Ideas

• What plan did the mice have? Was this a wise, or unwise idea?
• Can you think of a better way to solve Ted's problem?
• What would you do if it were you?

4. Comparing Similarities and Differences

• How is Sally different from Susan?
• What are two things that the children have in common?

5. Distinguishing Real from Make-Believe

• Could these things really happen?
• What kinds of things on this page are make-believe?

6. Seeing Cause and Effect Relationships

• What caused Bobby to ask that?
• Because Ellen did that, what happened?

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