Literacy The Strategy Focus: Questioning Section 1

Directions: QUICKLY skim the passage, and answer the question below. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0030000.jpg Based on your preview, what is the best goal-setting question for the passage? a. How did Snowball help to catch a killer? b. Why did Douglas Beamish kill his wife? c. How does DNA testing help solve crimes? d. What other crimes have animals helped solve?

a. How did Snowball help to catch a killer?

Directions: Read the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0240000.jpg What is the best possible explanation for why the author waits so long to reveal that the babies had been switched? a. to create suspense b. to confuse the reader c. to make the text longer d. all of the above

a. to create suspense

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0160000.jpg What question is not answered in the passage? a. Who is Alex's teacher? b. What shapes can Alex identify? c. How many colors can Alex identify? d. Why might Alex have a bad attitude?

b. What shapes can Alex identify?

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0160000.jpg Which question is not answered in the passage? a. What type of parrot is Alex? b. Where is Alex studied? c. How does Alex learn English? d. How high can Alex count?

c. How does Alex learn English?

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0080000.jpg Which is the best between-the-lines question to ask about the passage? a. How much vegetation does an elephant eat every day? b. Why are African elephants more prized by poachers? c. Why don't female Asian elephants have tusks? d. Why are African elephants rarely trained?

c. Why don't female Asian elephants have tusks?

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0080000.jpg Which question is not answered in the passage? a. How many Asian elephants are there? b. Which type of elephants are used at circuses? c. What is the purpose of an African elephants ears? d. What do poachers do with elephants' ivory tusks?

d. What do poachers do with elephants' ivory tusks?

Directions: QUICKLY skim the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0120000.jpg Based on your preview, what is an appropriate goal-setting question for the passage? a. Who is the world's youngest queen? b. Of what country is she queen? c. How old is the world's youngest queen? d. all of the above

d. all of the above

Which of the following an evaluation question? a. What is the value of this text? b. What have I learned? c. Why is it important? d. all of the above

d. all of the above

Directions: Read the passage, and answer the question that follows. The Odd Life of Howard Hughes When he was young, Howard Hughes seemed larger than life. He was once called "a second Lindbergh" because of all the records he broke as a pilot. He owned and ran dozens of businesses in every field, from building airplanes to making medicine. In his later years, Hughes became a recluse. Obsessed by worries about germs and illness, he turned into a lonely hypochondriac. One doctor described Hughes in his final days as being like a neglected prisoner of war. In the end, Hughes died of heart failure as he was being flown to a hospital. What is the best possible explanation for why the author does not explain what causes Hughes to become so strange? a. It would have made the text less interesting. b. The information is confidential. c. The information was not available. d. Howard Hughes asked him not to.

c. The information was not available.

Directions: QUICKLY skim the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0060000.jpg Based on your preview, what is the best goal-setting question for this passage? a. Why are African elephants harder to train than Asian elephants? b. How are elephants being affected by poaching and habitat loss? c. What are the similarities and differences between Asian and African elephants? d. Why are Asian elephants different than African elephants?

c. What are the similarities and differences between Asian and African elephants?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. Forensic Scientists It is the job of law enforcement officials to arrest criminals. Then they must convince judges and juries "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the right person was arrested. According to this principle, the judge and jurors must be fairly confident, based on the evidence, that the accused person is guilty. The work of forensic scientists begins with collecting the evidence at a crime scene. Along with police investigators, forensic scientists examine the crime scene. Investigators must be careful not to upset anything at a crime scene. They must make sure nothing new is added. Every possible piece of evidence is photographed or videotaped before it can be taken away. At a crime scene, investigators search for all the clues involved with the crime. They dust for fingerprints. They scrape up small bits of evidence using scalpels. Small, angled mirrors, like the ones dentists have, are used the see beneath heavy furniture. Tweezers are used to pick up fibers. Of course, investigators must be consistent when labeling where each piece of evidence was found before it is stored in a bag. The evidence is then sent to forensic labs. At these labs, scientists administer tests to determine whether the evidence is connected to the crime. Forensic scientists look for answers to questions about how a crime occurred. Finding answers is the job—and ultimate reward—of a forensic scientist. Which of these questions is answered in the reading? a. How is forensic evidence presented to judges and juries? b. How do people train to be forensic scientists? c. What do investigators do at a crime scene? d. all of the above

c. What do investigators do at a crime scene?

Directions: Read the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0020000.jpg What is an appropriate beyond-the-text question for this passage? a. What training do you need to become a forensic scientist? b. What do forensic scientists do? c. Would I like to be a forensic scientist? d. none of the above

c. Would I like to be a forensic scientist?

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0080000.jpg What is a good beyond-the-text question for this passage? a. Would you buy something made out of ivory? b. Would you rather see an Asian or an African elephant? c. What other animals in danger because of poaching and habitat loss? d. all of the above

d. all of the above

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows. Forensic Scientists It is the job of law enforcement officials to arrest criminals. Then they must convince judges and juries "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the right person was arrested. According to this principle, the judge and jurors must be fairly confident, based on the evidence, that the accused person is guilty. The work of forensic scientists begins with collecting the evidence at a crime scene. Along with police investigators, forensic scientists examine the crime scene. Investigators must be careful not to upset anything at a crime scene. They must make sure nothing new is added. Every possible piece of evidence is photographed or videotaped before it can be taken away. At a crime scene, investigators search for all the clues involved with the crime. They dust for fingerprints. They scrape up small bits of evidence using scalpels. Small, angled mirrors, like the ones dentists have, are used the see beneath heavy furniture. Tweezers are used to pick up fibers. Of course, investigators must be consistent when labeling where each piece of evidence was found before it is stored in a bag. The evidence is then sent to forensic labs. At these labs, scientists administer tests to determine whether the evidence is connected to the crime. Forensic scientists look for answers to questions about how a crime occurred. Finding answers is the job—and ultimate reward—of a forensic scientist. Which of these questions is answered in the reading? a. How is forensic evidence presented to judges and juries? b. How do people train to be forensic scientists? c. What do investigators do at a crime scene? d. all of the above

d. all of the above

Directions: READ the passage, and answer the question that follows. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0140000.jpg What is a "between-the-lines" question to ask about the passage? a. Why did Rania and Prince Abdullah marry so quickly? b. Why did Rania and her family leave Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded? c. Why was Prince Abdullah considered one of the world's most eligible bachelors? d. all of the above.

d. all of the above.

Directions: QUICKLY skim the passage, and answer the question below. 1096-06-01-02-00_files/i0030000.jpg Which is not a feature in the passage above which you can use to ask a goal-setting question? a. title b. photo c. caption d. header

d. header