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Active Reading Questioning
Strategies
reading
comprehension
Developing
u
Recall
How did Raúl start feeling in the third
inning?
Expanding
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Main Idea and Details
What details support
the idea that Raúl was tired?
Explain to
students that the main idea is the most
important point the author makes in a
story or paragraph. In order to support
the main idea, authors use details in other
sentences that may describe, give reasons
and definitions, and provide other types of
information. Here, two details that support
the idea that Raúl is tired are “His feet began
to feel like steel weights” and “His bat felt
like a ton of bricks.”
More Complex
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Sequence
What events happened in the
fourth inning? Use the words
first, next
,
and
last
to tell the events
. Explain to students that
sequence questions ask about the order of
events in a story or a scene.
Narrator 1:
Raúl thought back to last week’s game.
Narrator 2:
He played well in the first few innings.
Narrator 1:
But he did not play as well in later innings.
Narrator 2:
Raúl started feeling tired by the bottom of the third inning.
Narrator 1:
His feet began to feel like steel weights. His bat felt like a
ton of bricks.
Narrator 2:
During the fourth inning, Raúl was caught in a run-down.
He ran back and forth between first and second base.
Narrator 1:
Soon, Raúl couldn’t run anymore and he got tagged out.
He walked back to the dugout with his head hung low.
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Health and Lifestyle
Health and Lifestyle
Unit 1