How can I respond to a text…
***Text refers to written text and media (movies, news, TV shows, magazine articles, video clips etc.)
A. Making Connections:
• This reminds me of…
Text to Self:
• An experience I have had like that…
• I can connect to how the character
feels when ________ because
________.
• What does this remind me of in my
life?
• How is the text different/similar
from my life (what does this make
me realize or think of)?
• What were my feelings when I read
this?
Text to Text:
• This reminds me of the book
______ because…
• What does this remind me of in
something I have also read?
• How is this text similar to other
texts I have read?
• How is this text different from
others texts I’ve read?
• How does something else I have
read help me understand this text
better?
Text to World:
• What does this remind me of in the
real world?
• How is this text similar to things
that happen in the real world?
• How is this text different from
things that happen in the real
world?
• How did my knowledge of
something in the world around me
help me to understand the text
better?
• What themes in the book can I
connect to the real world?
• What feelings can I connect to the
real world?
Author’s Craft:
Message:
• What is this story really about? (lesson/message)
• What does this story say about the world?
• Whose perspective is this story being told from and how
does this impact the story?
• What themes do I notice in the story? Why are they
important?
Characters:
• If I was (character’s name), I would…
• The character that interests me most is ________ because….
• A character that really changed in the story was
________because he/she….
• I like/don’t like (character’s name) because….
Dialogue:
• How does dialogue (Informal/formal use of language)…
▪ Conveys story information
▪ Defines the character
▪ Provides information about plot and story events
Setting:
• How did the setting affect the mood of the story.
• Was the setting a “character” in the story, in what way?
• How did the setting impact the character?
Word Choice:
• What are some examples of powerful descriptive language?
• What part of the text used language that created a vivid
image in your mind while reading?
Illustrations:
• How did the colours used in the illustrations help you to
understand the mood of the story?
• How did the colours in the illustrations help you to
understand how the character(s) felt?
• How did the illustrations help you to understand what was
going on in the story?
• Did the illustrations match what you envisioned happening
in your head?
• Was there a recurring colour or image and how did it help
you to understand part of the story better?
• What details did you get from the illustrations that were not
in the text? How did this extra information/elaboration help
you to better understand the story?
L. Fumerton & D. Gable 2018
 Questions to encourage thought, explanation and justification
(“Why”)

Use these questions to generate ideas, extend thought and/or prompt for more
information to the questions above…

Why did you say that?

Reasons
What supports that thought/idea/opinion?
Is that what you meant?
Clarification/Explanation Can you elaborate on that?
What do you mean by that?
How can we prove this?
Evidence How do you know?
What part told you that?

L. Fumerton & D. Gable 2018