Level 1 Questions: Stated-Find It

Level 4 Questions: Answer Based on Analysis of Text/Author – Take It Apart!

Find similarities and differences across texts such as in treatment, scope, organization. Paired Reading Question stems: *How are ______like ______. *How are ______and ______organized alike? *What do ______and ______have in common? *What is one difference between ______and ______? *Look at the chart comparing the two stories. Which of these best completes the chart? *Both of these stories describe ______. *When the ______and ______are ______, how do they act differently? *A similarity between these two selections is that both ______. *How is (story) different from (informative text)? *What do the two stories have in common? *One way these selections are alike is that both mention ______. *Both of these stories describe ______. *A similarity between these two selections is that both discuss ______. Connect, compare, and contrast ideas, themes, and issues across texts. Paired passages, themes or ideas Question stems: *How are ______and ______alike? *What do ______and ______have in common? *Use a Venn diagram with ideas, themes, and issues in two different passages listed by unique to one passage and unique to the other passage and then ideas, themes, and issues in common. Students could be asked to add another idea, theme, or issue to the Venn Diagram. *A theme found in both articles is ______. *Which of these is a theme in both selections? *In what way does the story help convince the reader to _____? Level 4 *Why was the ______mentioned in both stories? *How are ______in “______” and ______in “______“ alike? *Which detail in ______’s letter shows that she felt the same way about ______as the ______in the newspaper article felt? *One similarity between the selections is that both show ______. *What is one idea found throughout the article? *One idea present in both of these selections is ______. Judge the internal consistency or logic of stories and texts such as “Would this character do this?” “Does this make sense here?” Question stems: *From what the reader learns about ______, which statement would not be reasonable? (logic/consistency) *From what the reader learns about ______, which of the following would she probably do? *From what the reader learns about ______, which statement does not make sense? *Based on information about ______, which of the following represents something she probably would not have done?

Recognize that authors organize information in specific ways. Question stems: *The author organizes paragraphs ____ through ____ of the article by ______. (Types of organization strategies: sequence, order of importance, cause and effect, and compare/contrast) *______(author) organizes information in this journal by ______. *How does the author organize this article? *How does ______organize what he wrote about the ______? *The author organizes this story by ______.

Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain. Question stems: *Identify the text that tells a story. *Which of the passages gives you information? *Which of the passages is written to persuade you? Level 4 *What is the most likely reason why the author wrote this story? *The information above the journal entry is provided to ______. Compare communication in different forms such as comparing story variants. Sample Question stem: *How is communication in _____ different from communication in ___?

Describe how the author’s perspective or point of view affects the text.

Author’s purpose Question stems: *The most likely reason the author wrote this article was to ______. *You can tell the author wrote this story to ______.

Author’s point of view Question stems: *What can the reader tell about ______from what she has written in her journal?

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