This week we will learn to identify the main idea and supporting details of fiction and nonfiction texts.
As you are reading with your child at home, here are some example questions you can use to discuss the book:
As you are reading with your child at home, here are some example questions you can use to discuss the book:
- Who are the characters?
- What is the setting?
- Can you think of some words to describe the character? Remember, we are not describing what they look like!
- What do you think will happen next in the story?
- Pause during your reading and ask your child if they are thinking of any questions about what is happening in the story.
- Show your child the front cover of a new book and ask them what questions they have about the story before reading it. What do they think the story will be about?
- After reading the story, ask your child if their questions were answered. Do they still have any questions after reading the story?
- What is the theme or central message of this story? What lesson did the characters learn in this story? What lesson can we learn from the story?
- Pause and discuss the meaning of unknown words in the story.
- Ask your child to recount the major events in the story and place them in sequential order.
- Compare and contrast characters in a story. Compare and contrast settings of different stories.
- Ask your child if they are making any text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-world connections.
- You can ask your child many other questions while reading stories!!