Helping Your Child to Read

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Strategies for Readers

Helping Your Child With Reading at Home

Special thanks to Mrs. Jenessa Blascak for sharing several of these resources!

Higher Level Reading Comprehension Questions (Collected by Mrs. Jodi Kryzanski)

STRAND 1 – Forming an Initial Understanding

Initial Understanding

Main Idea and Theme

Summary

Briefly summarize the story or article.
Write a brief paragraph summarizing the article.
Which information should NOT be included in a summary of the story (or article)?
If you could rename this article (or story), what would you call it and why? Use specific details from the story (or article) to support your answer.

Context Clues

Characters, Setting, Problems, Events, Relationships, & Details in a Written Work

According to the article, who… what… when… how… why…?
What information in the article supports your answer?
In this story, who… what… when… how… why…? (setting, events, characters, problem, solution)
What happenings, details, or information in the story support your answer?
Using information in the story, write a BRIEF description on how _______ felt when ________?
The character can BEST be described as ……. (friendly, sneaky, happy, careless) Give specific events of information from the story as support.
What is the problem in this story? Give specific details or information from the story to support your answer.
How did ______ solve the problem? Give specific information from the story as support.
Write a brief paragraph telling how two characters (or events) are alike or different. Be sure to give specific information from the story to support your answer.

Strand 2 – Developing an Interpretation

Making Connections with Experiences and Knowledge

The situation described in _____ is MOST like …
The _____ could be compared to …
Today a _____ might BEST be compared to ___
What is a similar situation or event in our world? In our school? In our families?

Use of Structure/Organizational Patterns

Paragraph # _____ of this story (article) can be described as (a conversation, an explanation, a description, a comparison, etc.) What information in the paragraph suggests this?
Make a graphic organizer or outline showing the most important ideas in paragraph # _____.
Fill in the sequence chain with the important events.
On the Venn diagram fill in how the _____ are similar (or different).
Which one of these events belongs in Box # _____?

Author’s Purpose

Why does the author include paragraph # _____? (to explain, describe, compare, define…)
The author mentioned _____ to (explain, tell, describe, show…)
The purpose of paragraph # _____ is to (describe, give examples, solve a problem, compare…)

Using Evidence

You can tell from the information in the passage that …
Which of the following sentences can be supported with evidence from the passage?
Which facts support the conclusion that…?

Strand 3 – Developing a Critical Stance

Making a Prediction Based on What is Read

Tell or write a brief paragraph about what PROBABLY would have happened if …
Use information from the story (article) to support your answer.
Based on the information in the story, in the future what will MOST LIKELY happen? Use information from the story to support your answer.
If the author had added another paragraph to the end of the story (or article), it would MOST LIKELY describe (or tell about) … Use information from the story to support your answer.

Author’s Craft (including use of literary devices)

A simile is a comparison using “as” or “like.” Choose a simile from the story (article) and explain why the author used that simile.
Why does the author emphasize …? Use information from the story to support your answer.

Evaluate Explicit and Implicit Information and Themes

You can tell from this story that the author thinks …
Find one fact and one opinion in the article (or in paragraph # __ ).
Which of these is an OPINION found in the article?
Would the author PROBABLY agree that … ? Use information from the article to support your answer.
With which of the following statements would the author probably agree? Use information from the story to support your answer.

Using Relevant Information in Responding to/Extending a Written Work

Choose the part of the story that you think was MOST important. Use details from the story to explain why you chose that part.
Imagine you are writing a letter to the author of this article. Write two questions not already answered in the article that you will ask the author.
Imagine that you were giving a talk to your class about … Using information from the article; write two ideas that you would use in your speech.
Using information from the story, write an imaginary journal page of (character name) when … (event).
If the author added another sentence at the end of this story, what might it be? Use information from the story to support you answer.
Which one of these sentences would BEST fit with the ideas in paragraph # ___ ?

Awareness of Values, Customs, Ethics, and Beliefs in a Written Work

How can you tell that … (a particular character or the author) cared about …? Use information from the story (article) to support you answer.

Which on e of the following would PROBABLY be the MOST important thing to … (a particular character or the author) … ? Use information from the story (article) to support your answer.
According to the passage, what human characteristics seemed too highly valued by … ? Use information from the article to support your answer.

Want these questions as a Microsoft Word document? Click here: Kryzanski Reading Flip Chart