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How to Be a Good Reader?
Ask yourself these questions to help you understand what you read:
Main Idea and Details:
What is the story mostly about?
What tells me more about the main idea?
Sequence:
What happens first, next, and last?
What are the steps to do something?
Cause and Effect:
What happens? (the effect)
Why did it happen? (the cause)
Evaluate Evidence:
What claims is the author making?
What evidence supports these claims?
Compare and Contrast:
How are these people or things the same?
How are these people or things different?
Make Inferences:
What clues does the story give?
What do I know already that will help?
Prediction:
What clues does the story give?
What do I know already that will help?
What will happen next?
Character and Setting:
Who or what is the story about?
Where and when does the story take place?
Theme:
What lesson does this story teach?
How does the author feel about this topic?
Author’s Purpose:
Does the story entertain, inform, try to persuade me, or teach me how to do something?
Nonfiction Text Features:
What kind of text am I reading?
What does it tell me?
Visual Information:
Is there a picture, chart, or graph?
What does it tell me?
source: Daily Reading Comprehension; Evan-Moor Educational Publishers;2010