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Directions: Pair these handy reading prompts with your classroom fiction or nonfiction reading selections, and you’ll have a great tool for engaging readers in your classroom—every day!

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• Determining the purpose for reading

1

Read the title and predict what the story will be about.

2 Why do you think you are reading this story? Write asentence to explain the reasons.
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•Analyzing characters • Questioning

1

Imagine that you are a reporter interviewing a character from the story. think the character would answer.

2 List three questions you would ask. Writedown how you

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• Identifying story elements

1

Draw a sandwich like the oneshown. (Leave enough room to write on each layer.) characters from the story. On the cheese, write the setting. On the meat, write an event.

Johnny, Mr. Davis, Sami a spooky mansion They spent thenight and heard spooky sounds!

2 On the lettuce, list the main

3 If you have time, color the sandwich.

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• Making predictions • Identifying the main idea

1

Browse the text, looking at the title, chapter titles, and headings. Record your thoughts.

2 What do you think themain idea of this book will be?

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• Categorizing

1

After reading a sectionof the text, write the topic in the center of a piece of paper. Circle the topic. shown at right.

Many birds fly.

Birds
Birds have feathers.

2 Make a chart like the one

3 In each box,...