1. Questioning Day 1 Right There
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2. Today’s Goal
Good readers use certain techniques to help them read and understand better.
Today: Right There Questions

3. Focus Question What do you think Right There Questions are?
How do you think knowing how to identify and answer these questions will help you when you are reading?

4. The Technique The answer is in 1 place in the text.
It is a “Green Light Question”
Go directly to the text and find the answer.
Questions typically begin with:
Who is…
What are…
Where is…
When was…
How did…

5. Let’s Practice The Pencil
Read the following passage and answer the 2 right there questions that follow:
The Pencil
Penny was a yellow number 2 pencil. She lived in an orange pencil box on Tommy's desk. She liked to draw pictures, but she didn’t like to do school work. Her favorite time of day was when Tommy went home. When she was alone in her pencil box, she dreamed of writing beautiful poems that would make her famous.
Who is Penny?
Where did she live?
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6. Now You Try Read the passage and write 3 right there questions.
When you are finished you will trade with a friend and answer each other’s questions.
REMEMBER the question starters:
Who is…
What are…
Where is…
When was…
How did…
Provide a level appropriate text. You may want to have texts available for each guided reading group you have, and the kids can trade with in the groups.

7. Questioning Day 2 Think and Search
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8. Today’s Goal
Good readers use certain techniques to help them read and understand better.
Today: Think and Search Questions

9. Focus Question
What do you think Think and Search Questions are? How do you think it is different than the right there questions we’ve been answering?
How do you think knowing how to identify and answer these questions will help you when you are reading?

10. The Technique Find the answer by searching several places in the text.
It is a “Yellow Light Question”
You must slow down and look in a few places to find the answer.
Questions might begin with:
What caused…
What were the differences between…
What was similar about…
Compare…

11. Let’s Practice
Read the book The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant and answer the 2 think and search questions that follow:
What were the differences between the old woman at the beginning of the story, and the old woman at the end? (How did she change?)
What factors caused her to change?

12. Now You Try Read the passage and write 3 think and search questions.
When you are finished you will trade with a friend and answer each other’s questions.
REMEMBER the question starters:
What caused…
What were the differences between…
What was similar about…
Compare…
Provide a level appropriate text. You may want to have texts available for each guided reading group you have, and the kids can trade with in the groups.

13. Questioning Day 3 Author and You
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14. Today’s Goal
Good readers use certain techniques to help them read and understand better.
Today: Author and You Questions

15. Focus Question
What do you think Author and You Questions are? How do you think it is different than the right there questions and the think and search we’ve been answering?
How do you think knowing how to identify and answer these questions will help you when you are reading?

16. The Technique
The answer is a combination of what the author tells you and what you already know.
It is a “Yellow Light Question”
You must slow down and think about how to connect yourself with the text/author.
Questions might begin with:
What does the author mean by…
What does the author probably think about…
What is the author’s main point about…
What is probably the author’s purpose…

17. Let’s Practice
Read the book ________ by Madonna and answer the 2 author and you questions that follow:
What is probably the author’s purpose in writing this book?
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18. Now You Try Read the passage and write 2 author and you questions.
When you are finished you will trade with a friend and answer each other’s questions.
REMEMBER the question starters:
What does the author mean by…
What does the author probably think about…
What is the author’s main point about…
What is probably the author’s purpose…
Provide a level appropriate text. You may want to have texts available for each guided reading group you have, and the kids can trade with in the groups.

19. Questioning Day 4 On Your Own
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20. Today’s Goal
Good readers use certain techniques to help them read and understand better.
Today: On Your Own Questions

21. Focus Question
What do you think On Your Own Questions are? How do you think it is different than the other types of questions we’ve been answering?
How do you think knowing how to identify and answer these questions will help you when you are reading?

22. The Technique
To find the answer to this question you must think about what you already know.
It is a “Red Light Question”
You must stop and think about what you know to answer the question.
Questions might begin with:
I wonder why…
What do you think…
Why would…
How could…
Why do you think…
What if…

23. Let’s Practice
Read the book Pinduli by Janell Cannon and answer the 2 think and search questions that follow:
What if you were Pinduli? How would you of felt when the other animals were making comments about you?
What do you think would of happened if Pinduli had just run away, and not tried to fit in?

24. Now You Try Read the passage and write 1 on your own question.
When you are finished you will trade with a friend and answer each other’s questions.
REMEMBER the question starters:
I wonder why…
What do you think…
Why would…
How could…
Why do you think…
What if…
Provide a level appropriate text. You may want to have texts available for each guided reading group you have, and the kids can trade with in the groups.