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Asking Questions

Wise Readers:

  • Generate questions before, during, and after reading.

  • Ask questions for different purposes (clarify, predict, specific answer).

  • Use questions to focus their attention on important components of the text.

  • Are aware that other readers’ questions may inspire new questions for them.

  • Recognize not all questions are answered in the text.

Mentor Texts

  • How to Deal with a Broken Wing

  • Amazing Grace

  • The Lion and the Mouse

  • The Tin Forest

  • Grandfather Twilight

  • An Angel for Solomon Singer

  • The Stranger

  • The Royal Bee

  • Where are you going Manyoni?

  • The Lotus Seed

  • Three Questions

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