Quickly assess students’ understanding of the text using these open-ended comprehension questions to use with any book.
No matter what texts your readers are devouring, this list of questions pairs well with all.
So include a few of these comprehension questions for use with any book into your reading lessons this week.
Comprehension Questions To Use With Any Book: Non-Fiction
The following are comprehension questions to use with any book that is non-fiction.
- What questions do you have now after reading this material?
- Which text features helped you to understand the book better?
- Where in the book did you have to infer what the author was trying to tell you?
- How would you have solved the main character’s problem?
- What are 3-5 new facts you have learned after reading the selection?
- If you could rename one of the sections of the book, what would the new title be? Explain.
- What are 2 or 3 things you still wonder after reading the book?
- Think about one of the characters from the book. Why do you think he or she would make a good friend?
- Which characters and events in this book would make for a great movie?
- What experiences in your life have helped you understand the main ideas presented in the book?
- If you could ask one of the characters from the book two questions, which character would you choose and what would you ask?
- What actions or events presented in the text confirmed or challenged what you already knew?
- How has your thinking been shifted after reading this book?
- What are some words you didn’t know as you read? How did you use context clues and/or a dictionary to define them?
- Which words confused you while reading? Which word(s) and which page(s)?
- Why was the title a good one for this book?
- What motivated the main character’s actions, and were his/her actions justified?
- Which parts of the story left you scratching your head?
- What messages can you infer that the author didn’t put into words?
- What images did you visualize as you read each section or chapter?
Comprehension Questions To Use With Any Book: Fiction
Use these comprehension questions with any fiction book.
- How would you have solved the main character’s problem?
- What did you visualize as you read the story?
- Where in the story were you confused? What strategies did you use to move past this roadblock?
- What is one text-to-self connection you have after reading the book?
- How did the author make the text enjoyable?
- What is the author’s purpose for writing the story?
- How would you begin and end a summary of this book?
- What reading strategies did you apply in order to help you comprehend the book?
- If you would step into this story, what is the first thing that you would do and why?
- How was your prior knowledge confirmed or challenged after reading the book?
- What do you think will happen next? Why?
- Are there any examples of figurative language in the book? Share them.
- What is the main conflict in the story?
- How does the setting add or take away from the story?
- What are the major events in the story?
- How would you retell the ending of the story?
- What is the genre of the text? How do you know?
- How has your thinking or mindset shifted after reading the book?
- Which text features did the author use to help you understand the information better?
- How is the setting significant in this story? Explain with specific details.
- Why or why not does the title fit the book?
- How are you similar or different to any of the characters in the book?
- What can you figure out that the author didn’t put into words?
- If you could rename the title of the book, what would it be? Explain.
Now you’re set to assign students a few of these comprehension questions to use with any book – fiction or nonfiction.
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