Year 3 Questioning Unit | Reading Strategy Worksheets, Games & Assessment

Help Year 3 students build the reading comprehension habit of asking useful questions before, during and after reading. This complete English unit includes explicit teaching, games, activities, worksheets, answers and assessment resources.

Students practise using who, what, where, when, why and how questions, distinguish literal questions from deeper thinking questions, choose strong and helpful questions, and explain how questioning supports comprehension.

What’s Included

• Editable PowerPoint teaching presentation
• Editable 10-question PowerPoint quiz with answer pairs
• Questioning Toolkit classroom display
• Question Quest game and Strong Question Sort activity
• Six student worksheets for before-, during- and after-reading questioning
• Matching suggested-answer pages for each worksheet and the assessment
• Questioning in Action assessment task
• Year 3 questioning rubric

Learning Focus

• Ask questions before, during and after reading
• Use who, what, where, when, why and how questions
• Distinguish literal questions from deeper thinking questions
• Identify strong and helpful questions
• Explain how questioning supports comprehension

Classroom Use

Suitable for whole-class Year 3 English lessons, small groups, literacy rotations, relief lessons, revision and assessment evidence.

Aligned with Australian Curriculum v9.0 code AC9E3LY05.

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