Today I am sharing a mini lesson I do each year to help my students practice asking questions about a text.
One of my favorite yearly purchases at Target is these fun adhesive mustaches:
I buy them every year at Halloween and use them for a mini lesson on creating text-based questions.
This year, I decided to fancy up my mini lesson and share it as a freebie!
Here's how our lesson typically goes:
We start by talking about question words. We use this quick anchor chart to identify them and discuss different examples of questions.
We add this mini poster into our reading notebooks as a reference,
then work on a sort to practice putting questions together. I like to have my kids pair up for this activity, but it would also work as an independent sort.
Next up is our read aloud. I prefer to use a nonfiction text for this activity, but a fiction story would work too.
We read the story together and talk about some of the key details. Then, it is time to start working on some questions!
I have my students work on the questions with a partner. Their job is to create a question for each of the six question words we talked about.
Once the pairs have their questions ready, we are officially ready for the mustaches! Everyone puts on their mustache (which they think is hilarious!), the pairs make small groups, and take turns asking each other their questions.
Click the picture above to get your copy of this mini lesson!
I hope this has been helpful and that your students enjoy this fun mini lesson as much as mine do!
