Questioning Lesson and Activities Comprehension Crew

Engage Your Elementary Students with Interactive Reading Instruction!

Discover an innovative approach to teaching reading comprehension skills with our comprehensive lesson plan on questioning. Designed for 1st-3rd grade teachers, this resource offers a wealth of engaging activities and resources to captivate young minds.

This resource equips you with everything necessary to introduce and reinforce the questioning skill effectively. It establishes a consistent framework for continual practice and application with various texts and future lessons, enhancing reading skills and comprehension.

Meet Quinn The Questioner, your students’ guide to mastering the art of questioning.

Quinn demonstrates how to identify elements in the text that prompt curiosity or lack clarity, and then guides students in formulating questions.

Utilizing question words such as who, what, when, why, how, and where, Quinn facilitates deeper comprehension while reading. Moreover, Quinn empowers readers with strategies to sustain questioning throughout all texts, improving their literacy skills.

With concrete representations through character portrayal, this resource facilitates active engagement with the reading skill. The versatile lesson format can be seamlessly applied to any book, fostering repeated practice and reinforcement.

Explore a variety of activities included to enrich students’ questioning abilities and foster student engagement.

Key Features:

• Character Posters & Visual Aids
• Character Profile encompassing profession, theme song, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and assistance to readers
• Concrete Questioning Activity
• Introduction & Modeling Lesson Plan on Questioning adaptable to any book
• Teacher Implementation Tips
• Graphic Organizers – 45 differentiated options for diverse texts
• Flip Books – 4 versatile options suitable for any text
• Interactive Notebook Pages
• Task Cards with Photographs, inclusive of answer keys and differentiated answer sheets
• Task Cards with Short Text, accompanied by answer keys and differentiated answer sheets
• Practice Passages with differentiated texts and scaffolded response options, complete with answer keys

Bonus:

• Mentor Text Suggestions featuring picture books and wordless picture books
• Updated version includes graphic organizers, worksheets, and posters in Google Slides for convenient student interaction!

What is the Comprehension Crew?

The Comprehension Crew comprises characters, each representing an essential reading skill. With distinct professions, songs, gestures, and props, these characters offer tangible representations of reading skills. They serve as models to reinforce skills both in and out of text, aiding students in understanding, retention, and intentional application of skills during reading sessions.

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

There are characters representing each of the following reading skills:

• inferencing
• questioning
• predicting
• summarizing
• clarifying
• connecting- TRY FOR FREE!
• synthesizing
• evaluating
• visualizing
• theme
• determining importance
• main idea
• text features
• text structure
• vocabulary

Book Companions which include question lesson plans with Quinn:

Goldilocks & The Three Bears

Teacher Reviews

🍎 3rd grade teacher Carolyn says, “This is a great resource to help students with the concept of asking questions before, while, and after they read. My students especially enjoyed questioning the photos that are included. This will get plenty of use in my room!”

🍎 1st grade teacher Courtney says, “This is a very thorough resource! I found the graphic organizers, task cards, and reading passages to be very helpful. My students really enjoyed the task cards!”

If you have any questions about this resource or how to best use it in your classroom, I am happy to help! Please email me at [email protected] or Instagram message me at Lessons_by_the_lake. Thank you!