Comprehension Question Fans

Reading Comprehension Question Fans keep reading questions accessible for teachers and students during whole group discussions, guided reading groups, literature circles, paired discussions - and the various questions included provide that needed choice for students when crafting their best reading responses.

Lately, I've received a few questions about my question fans I used in one of my lessons I wrote about last year.  I whipped up this question fan using questions from my persuasive writing unit.  You can read the blog post from last year by clicking HERE. I really enjoyed using the question fans for reading comprehension - they were handy, I had multiple questions to choose from, and more importantly, the students really liked them.

Now that I'm finally wrapping my mind around getting back into back-to-school mode (I apologize to those of you who are already back), I decided to make up a larger question fan resource.  This Reading Comprehension Questions resource covers all seven comprehension strategies:  asking questions, determining importance, inferring, making connections, summarizing, synthesizing, visualizing, and can be used with any novel.  There are 140 different comprehension strategy questions in this resource that can be grouped altogether on a binder ring, or can be grouped by strategy.  I can use these fans when studying the different strategies in isolation, or can pick and choose from the questions on different fans when doing a review or during a novel study.

I made up a few packages so I can add these to my students' guided reading buckets.  They are perfect to grab when conferencing with students.  Each guided reading group has a comprehension strategy they focus on, so these question fans will help them during group discussions.  I can also pass them out for partner discussions after independent reading, or put at a literacy center.

I made an extra set with all the questions and attached them together with a binder clip circle (or whatever those rings are called).  I can hook the whole set on a wall by my desk, and I can choose from the questions for reading response questions (I can put it under the document camera and project it over the board).