I don't ask my kids questions every time we read, some times I just want the story to flow and let my kids focus on my fluency, expression and character voices.
So when is a good time to ask kids questions about books at home and where do you start?
So when is a good time to ask kids questions about books at home and where do you start?
In my opinion try questioning one to two times a week would be great, that's if you are reading daily. When my kids were younger say around the ages of 2 and 3 my questions were mainly based on the pictures found in the stories such as; what is the animal doing, how many apples do you see, how do you think they are feeling, why do you think so and so is doing that? Or even more basic just asking your child to describe what they see in the picture. Later on build off the pictures and start asking about the story; Who are the characters? What just happened? Why did they do that? What would you have done? What do you think will happen next?
Kids asking the questions
As your child gets the hang of answering your questions have them ask you the questions. This requires some higher level thinking- they have to first know the answer and then in return know how to ask the question. They love this because they feel like they are important and have some ownership. I tell my kids to ask me questions to see if I was paying attention to what was gong on.
Once again start off small, have them ask you questions about pictures or even just one sentence from the story. Your kids may need lots of modeling to understand how to ask questions so take it easy.
Trying to pick parts of a story that would be easy to ask a question about, like at the beginnning when a character is just being introduced.
Have fun with this, if you are up for it use a pretend microphone to let the kids talk into- we have an echo mic from the dollar store that adds some flare to or story time.
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