Asking Good Questions - Students 1 - not up

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Students

Student Activity Sheet A

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

Student Activity Sheet B

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

Student Activity Sheet C

  • 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?

Student Activity Sheet D

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 __

Student Lesson Review Sheet

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?