Use the questions below to help guide discussions about the books your child is reading at home. There are questions for fiction and non-fiction texts.
Making Inferences
Grade 2
Foundational Learning
Make simple inferences about a character (his/her feelings) and story events, providing some general
supporting details
Making Connections
Grade 2 Foundational Learning
Make obvious personal connections
Relate prior knowledge and make concrete text-to-text comparisons
5 Finger Retell
Grade 2 Foundational Learning
Retell narrative text including main events in sequence with some supporting details, and most story elements
tell the story in order.
talk about the setting, main characters, problem and solution
include the main events and some details.