Reading Questions Chavez/Schornack

 Fiction, this week?

(You will only get this copy once.  Since this is HOMEwork, perhaps you should keep it in a safe place at HOME.)

Question One:  What is one conclusion you can draw from your reading tonight?  Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

Question Two:  make an inference about a character as you read tonight using the textual evidence.  (I can infer that _______ because the text says _____________)

Question Three:  Write an objective summary of the section of the text that you red tonight.  ( An objective summary is writing about only what happened in the text without using your opinion or personal feelings.)

Question Four:  Write down a line of dialogue from your reading tonight that you feel is significant to the story.  What does that line of dialogue reveal about the character that said it?

Question Five:  Write down one word or phrase from your reading tonight that you are not sure about and/or has a connotative or figurative meaning.  Write down what the word or phrase actually means.

You must cite your source at least once per week.

Nonfiction, this week?

Question One:  Assess the author’s qualifications to write this text.  What information do you know about this author that makes him/her a credible person to write about this topic?

Question Two:  In the section of the text you read tonight, what type of arguments or evidence does the author use to support his/her central idea?  Are the arguments/evidence effective to you as a reader? Explain

Question Three:  Compare your current independent reading text/book with another text/book you have read in the past.  How are the structures of these two texts alike?

Question Four:  Synthesize information from your reading by reveaing how you have changed and /or added to your background knowledge on a specific topic based on information from the text.

Question Five:  Critique a decision that the author made about th use or nonuse of text features in this book/text …(I like/dislike how the author  ___________because  ____________________.)

You must cite your source at least once per week.