Asking Good Questions - Students 1 - not up

Directions: If your friends decided to go to the movies and you wanted to go, what questions would you ask?

Study the comic strips below. Circle the answers that show the characters asking good questions.

• Who are the characters in this script?
• Where did Anya go?
• What did Anya do at the pumpkin patch?
• How do you think Anya feels when Ken won’t answer her?

Directions: In the scripts below circle two nouns in purple that name a person and one noun that names a place. In red circle two verbs.

Example script of asking good questions:
Ken: What did you do yesterday?
Anya: I went on the hayride at the pumpkin patch. Did you go?
Ken: I did not go yet but I want to! What kinds of activities did they have?
Anya: They had some rides, apple bobbing, and crafts. I had fun.

Example script of not asking good questions:
Anya: Hi, Ken, how are you today?
Ken: (No Answer)
Anya: Did you go on the hayride at the pumpkin patch?
Ken: I’m not going to answer you.
Anya: It was a lot of fun. I thought the monsters were scary.
Ken: No. No. No.

Directions: How many syllables do you hear in the words below?
Anya __
hayride __
go __
fun __
pumpkin __

Directions: Complete the following questions.

1. What is a question?
2. Why should you ask questions when you are having a conversation?
3. What are some of the reasons that you would ask a question?