School wide nonfiction lesson 4

Asking Questions While Reading Nonfiction

Readers of nonfiction ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading. We do this to activate prior knowledge, build understanding, and monitor comprehension.

Before Reading

During Reading

After Reading

1. How does the title help me know what this text is going to be about.
   
2. What do I know about this topic or subject?
   
3. What questions do I have?
   
4. What type of nonfiction is this? How does that help me prepare for this read?
   
5. Is there a particular way that the text is structured?
   
   

1. The under ground rail road inset a rail road under ground.
2. I think this is all about slavery and the under ground rail road.
3. Is he all by him self with out any parents.
4. Literary Nonfiction. That helps me think
   

1. What do I understand?
   
2. What is unclear?
   
3. What new questions do I have?
   

1. Will Henry every see his kid again.
2. His great owner is about to die. Now he is
3. Henry was good at his at his job.
4. Why cant slaves sing maybe because they would get in some sort of trouble.
   
5. I think understand why Henry is still and I also think I know he could go to the under ground rail road maybe.
   
6. How can mail Henry mail him self if there are no
7. what is vetral

1. What have I learned?
   
2. What are the important ideas that stuck with me?
   
3. What new or lingering questions do I have?
   

I learned that slaves could not no there names. Also