BEFORE READING, ask yourself questions like —
- What type of text is this? An informative passage? A story?
- What is the topic, or subject, of the text?
Informational Texts
| What is the main idea of the passage? What are the most important details? How did the author organize the information? Why?
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Stories, Poems, and Plays
| Why do characters do certain things? What are the main themes, or messages, in the text? How does the setting of a story affect what happens?
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AFTER READING, ask yourself questions like —
- What did I learn from this passage?
- How does what I learned relate to my life?
- What didn't I understand in the text? How can I make it clearer?
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