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Parent Resource
Helping Your Child to Make Reader/Text Connections
Here are some excellent
questions to help your child make connections between the text that he
or she is reading independently and outside experiences and knowledge.
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Think about someone who did something
courageous. Tell how that experience was like the experience of
_______________________ in the story.
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Think about what this story says about
people in general. In what ways does it remind you of people you have
read about? (Your child should give evidence from the text to support
his or her opinion.
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If ___________________ (character name)
were alive today, what would you most like to ask him or her? (Your
child should give evidence from the book to support his or her answer.)
Here are some excellent
questions to help your child select, synthesize, and/or use relevant
information within a written work that he or she is reading
independently to form a personal response to the text.
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Imagine that you are ___________________
(character name). How would you feel if that situation happened to
you? Why?
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Which part of the story do you think was
most important? (Your child should give evidence from the story and his
or her life to explain.)
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Which part of the story was most
interesting or surprising? (Your child should give evidence from the
book to support his or her opinion.)
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