There are different types of questions you can ask your child to make a more effective reading aloud experience.
Reading Aloud Questions:
Comprehension Questions: Questions that check that your child is understanding the story. There is only one correct answer to these questions.
example: What did the first pig built his house from?
Open Ended Questions: These are opinion questions and there is not only one answer to these questions.
Why do you think the pig built his house from straw?
Prediction Questions: Questions that allow your child to make guesses on the plot of the story .
What do you think is going to happen to the pigs house that was build out of straw?
Relating to your child’s life: These Questions make the story relate to your child’s own experiences.
Tell me a time you or someone you have known chose to do something the easiest way even though it was not the best way to do it? What happened?
