Dear Parent/Guardian,
    Comprehension, or the ability to understand written text, is not something that comes automatically to beginning readers.  When reading with your child at home, you can help by asking the following questions:

Narrative text tells a story.  Examples include short stories, folktales, tall tales, myths, fables, legends, fantasies, and science fiction.  

Narrative Questions

Before Reading
  1. What does the title tell me about this story?
  2. What do the pictures tell me?
  3. What do I already know about …?

During Reading
  4. Who?
  5. What?
  6. When?
  7. Where?
  8. Why?
  9. How?
 10.  What do I think will happen next?

After Reading
  11. Who were the characters?
  12. What was the setting?
  13. What was the problem?
  14. How was the problem solved?
  15. Why did …?