Question Exploration Guide

Text Reference Name:

Course Title
Unit Critical Question #: Date:
Lesson

What is the Critical Question?

1 How did the author achieve his/her purpose?

2 What are the Key Terms and explanations?

Author’s Purpose Description
Cause and Effect Chronological
Problem Solution Sequence
Compare and Contrast
3 What are the Supporting Questions and answers?

What is the author’s purpose?

What is the organizational pattern?

4 What is the main Idea answer?

The author achieved his/her purpose of persuade/inform/entertain by writing in __________________________ text structure.

5 How can we use the main idea? 6 Is there an Overall Idea? Is there a real-world use?
The _____________________________ text structure allows the audience to understand the
central message of_________________________________________________________.

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 Question Exploration Guide
Text Reference Name:
Course Title
Unit Critical Question #: Date:
Lesson

What is the Critical Question?

1 How did the author achieve his/her purpose? How did the author write the text to show his or her purpose?

AP- why the author wrote the text

2 What are the Key Terms and explanations? CE- the text structure that gives reasons and the results of something happening
Author’s Purpose Description PS- the text structure that shows conflicts or issues and how they are solved
Cause and Effect Chronological CC- the text structure that shows similarities and differences between things or ideas
Description- the text structure that describes something or ideas
Problem Solution Sequence Chronological- the text structure that put things in order by dates Sequence- A text structure that shows things in order by step
Compare and Contrast
3 What are the Supporting Questions and answers?
The author’s purpose in “A Forgotten Story” is to inform us about black women who
What is the author’s purpose? (based on were almost forgotten although they were the
text one only) “female computers” and “Math whizzes” who helped land the first man on the moon.
The organizational pattern is problem solution because the author shows us that
What is the organizational pattern? (text these women were not recognized in the past, but now the movie “Hidden Figures”
one) helps us learn about the history of these female computers.

4 What is the main Idea answer?

The author achieved his/her purpose of persuade/inform/entertain by writing in __________________________ text structure.

5 How can we use the main idea? 6 )How do we

Is there an Overall Idea? Is there a real-world use?
The _problem solution text structure allows the audience to understand connect the message to real life experiences? Media
(the central message__the importance of these black women
and literature can help us learn about historical
_______________________________________________________.’(Con
sider the message of the text- ) people, events, and ideas.
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