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Literal Comprehension Questions

The document outlines different types of comprehension questions that can be asked about a text. It separates the questions into three categories: 1) Literal comprehension questions ask students to recall explicit details stated in the text like characters, settings, events, or the main idea. 2) Inference questions ask students to interpret implied details or make predictions not directly stated. 3) Evaluative questions ask students to evaluate information based on their own knowledge and experiences, such as expressing opinions on characters, events, or comparing two stories.

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Literal Comprehension Questions

The document outlines different types of comprehension questions that can be asked about a text. It separates the questions into three categories: 1) Literal comprehension questions ask students to recall explicit details stated in the text like characters, settings, events, or the main idea. 2) Inference questions ask students to interpret implied details or make predictions not directly stated. 3) Evaluative questions ask students to evaluate information based on their own knowledge and experiences, such as expressing opinions on characters, events, or comparing two stories.

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Literal Comprehension Questions

Read the lines: recall information stated directly and explicitly in the text.

a. Recall Character, Setting, or Time Details

Student is asked to recall facts explicitly stated in the text about a character (name, traits,
feelings, variables), the setting of the story, or the time the story takes place.

b. Recall Single Action or Event Details

Student is asked to recall details explicitly stated in the text about a single action or event.

1. What was action or event?


2. How happened?
3. What happened?

c. Recall List or Sequence

Student is asked to recall a list of items, actions, or events explicitly stated in the text or the
sequence of several actions or events explicitly stated in the text.

1. What items?
2. What actions?
3. What events?
4. What order it happened?
First?
Next?

d. Recall Comparisons

Student is asked to recall likenesses or differences among characters, events, or places that are
explicitly compared in the text.

e. Recall Cause and Effect Relationships

Student is asked to recall reasons for certain actions or events explicitly stated in the text or the
results of certain actions or events explicitly stated in the text. This would include character
motives.

f. Recall Main Idea

Student is asked to recall the main idea, theme, or moral of an individual paragraph or entire
story that is explicitly stated in the text.
Inference Comprehension Questions
Read between the lines: interpret information implied in the text.

a. Infer Supporting Character, Setting, or Time Details

Student is asked to suggest additional details not explicitly stated in the text about a character
(name, traits, feelings, variables), the setting of the story, or the time the story takes place.

b. Infer Single Action or Event Details

Student is asked to infer or predict additional details not explicitly stated in the text about a
single action or event. This would include inferring what might have occurred previously or
predicting what could occur next in the story. This would also include predicting the final
outcome of the story.

1. What was action or event?


2. How happened?
3. What happened?

c. Infer List or Sequence

Student is asked to infer or predict a list of items, actions, or events not explicitly stated in the
text or the sequence of several actions or events not explicitly stated in the text.

1. What items?
2. What actions?
3. What events?
4. What order they happened?
First?
Next?

d. Infer Comparisons

Student is asked to infer likenesses or differences among characters, events, or places not
explicitly compared in the text.

e. Infer Cause and Effect Relationships

Student is asked to infer reasons for certain actions or events not explicitly stated in the text or
the results of certain actions or events not explicitly stated in the text. This would include
character motives.
f. Infer Main Idea

Student is asked to provide the main idea, theme, or moral of an individual paragraph or entire
story that is not explicitly stated in the text.

g. Summarize Story

Student is asked to summarize in his/her own words the events in the entire story.
Evaluative Comprehension Questions
Read behind and beyond the lines: evaluate information based on personal knowledge and
experiences.

a. Evaluate Character

Student is asked to express and support an opinion about a character s traits, feelings, motives,
variables, or actions in a story.

b. Evaluate Single Action or Event

Student is asked to express and support an opinion about a single event in the story. This would
include asking the student to put him/herself into that event and describe the action he/she would
take and why.

c. Evaluate Sequence of Events or Overall Story Plot/Theme

Student is asked to express and support an opinion about a sequence of several events or the
overall plot/theme of the story. This would include asking the student to put him/herself into the
sequence of events or the overall story plot and describe the actions he/she would take and why?

d. Compare Content Elements Between Two Stories

Student is asked to express an opinion about the likenesses or differences between two stories.
This could include likenesses or differences in the characters (traits, feelings, variables), actions,
or events in each story.

e. Judge Reality or Fantasy

Student is asked to express and support an opinion about whether characters, actions, or events in
a story could have existed or occurred in real life.

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