Question the text with a reading comprehension activity based on Chaim Potok's The Chosen. Learners read four passages from the book and decide if the question after each passage is between the reader and the author, for the reader to answer on his or her own, in the text itself, or for the reader to think about and search.

Concepts

the chosen, chaim potok, asking questions, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• A good warm-up or homework activity
• Include in a novel unit assessment, or to assess skill level of incoming learners

Classroom Considerations

• Alignment of the worksheet might be difficult for some learners to follow; consider reformatting the worksheet

Pros

• A helpful strategy for any kind of reading
• Great for reading intervention classes, and/or for struggling readers
• Provides a rationale for each question

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.11-12.1