Creating Nine Important Reading Questions
Use the following objectives to create specific questions and answers about a particular text. Do not write general questions. Direct your readers to important parts of the text as you brainstorm good questions. Tell your readers to always provide evidence--words and/or phrases.
- Determine an author’s point of view, main argument, purpose, or theme.
- Cite strong textual evidence to support analysis.
- Determine two or more central ideas/themes in a text.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases in context.
- Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure/organization an author uses in a text.
- Analyze how an author uses rhetorical/literary strategies and elaborate on the effectiveness of those strategies.
- Determine an author’s tone in a text or the mood of a passage (or part of the text).
- Infer the meaning behind a line or paragraph in a text. Consider how the author would feel about another situation not mentioned in the text.
- Understand the function of a section or sections of a text.
