Questioning While Conferencing
Author and Text Based
What are some important ideas in the story?
What is the author trying to tell you?
How did the author describe the character?
What is the setting and plot of the story?
What is the main character like?
Reader Based
What do you think this story is about?
How did you feel as you read this story?
What connections (personal/literary) did you make as you were reading?
Do the characters remind you of anyone?
Can you relate to the challenges the characters faced? How so?
How would you have acted if you were the main character?
World Based
What attitudes or worldviews are endorsed/diminished?
What assumptions are taken for granted?
How are critical issues (race, gender, class, ethnicity) dealt with?
How is the story like things that are going on in our world today?
Why do you think the author wrote this book?