What happened after... (any event in the reading, preferably one early on).
Should he/she have done that?
Should he/she have done that?
How does x compare with y? (X and Y can be two characters, two places, two events, two stories)
That's interesting. What do you mean by that?
What was going on at that time?
Why do you think …?
What do you suppose was the cause or reason for….?
What do you think will happen next?
Who has something to say about that? (for a group reading or narration)
Are there any choices the main character has made that you really admire? Tell me about one. Choices you really think were wrong? Tell me about one.
Tell me about some of the people in this reading/book.
What do you find out about any of the characters in this reading?
What are the main characters like? How do you know?
What’s a part you really enjoyed?
Why?
Did anything here really surprise you, strike you or grab your attention?
Did you wonder about anything as you read?
What happened in this chapter? Why? Is that what should have happened?
Did this remind you of anything else?
If you could be any of these characters, which would you choose, and why?
If this happened to you, what would you do?
Do not ask all of these questions after a reading. That would be ridiculously exhausting. You can use a question to prompt the narration, or once the child has give you a basic narration, ask maybe one or two of these questions.
These questions are not all meant to be asked at once, nor for every age of reader.
Don’t argue with his answers, or he won’t want to tell you his thoughts again. Depending on your relationship, you might rather thoughtfully say, “Really? I hadn’t thought of it that way. I thought……”
You want questions that give the child scope to think and process, not merely remember facts. You’re not looking for one correct answer. You don’t want to ask, “Why should Harry trust Snape,” but rather, “Would you trust Snape or not? What are some of your reasons?”
Be careful in wording the questions. “Why does Choi Soo Hyun resent his little brother” is not as good as ‘How does Choi Soo Hyun feel about his little brother?’ followed by, “How can you tell?” or “Why do you think so?” Or, “what things in the story showed you how he felt?”
You are helping your child discover connections. You are not telling them what the connections are.
Recommended Reading:
Consider This
Mind to Mind
Minds More Awake
The Living Page, and, of course, Charlotte Mason’s own writings.
Consider This
Mind to Mind
Minds More Awake
The Living Page, and, of course, Charlotte Mason’s own writings.
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$3.00 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Copywork (grades 2/3, carefully selected with an eye toward finely crafted sentences, lovely bits of writing pleasant to picture in the mind's eye, and practice in copying some of the mechanics of grammar and punctuation typically covered in these years.
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