Analyzing books, articles, and media for reading comprehension in the classroom is an important skill for students to master in order to develop critical thinking, understand what they’re learning in every class, and to build subject-specific vocabulary.
Asking the right reading comprehension questions about what you’re analyzing in the classroom can help improve students' overall comprehension and activate these critical thinking skills.
No matter what you’re teaching, you can bring in your favorite informational text, stories, videos, and other media to analyze into Quizizz with Comprehension questions.
We want to make it easy to get started on comprehension practice. Here are our favorite ways (and dozens of sample response questions!) you can work into any subject or grade level to help your students analyze both fiction and nonfiction texts.
Reading comprehension questions to help students make connections
Help students make connections between a text and other books, articles, media or pieces of writing.
- Does this remind you of anything in your life? How is this similar or different?
- Has something like this ever happened to you?
- What does this remind you of in another book you’ve read?
- How is this the same or different from other texts you’ve read?
- What does this remind you of in the real world?
- Does this remind you of any other historical or current events? Which ones?
- How is this similar or different from events that have happened in the past?
- How is this similar or different from events that happen in the real world?
- Where does the story take place? Have you ever been to a place like this?
- How did you feel while reading this story? Why did you feel that way?
- Would this book or information be different if it were written 10, 50, or even 100 years ago? How would that have impacted the world around us?
- Is this like any other text you’ve read? How is it alike or different? Which one do you like better and why?
Reading questions to clarify and deepen understanding of a text
Help students deepen understanding after reading, and help them summarize what they learned.
- Summarize what you just read or watched.
- Why did _____? How do you think _______?
