The Adventures of Natividad and Toledo

## QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT

### Talk about these with another child (peer), a parent, a classroom helper or a teacher:

What else would you like to know about Nati or Toledo?

What else would you like to know about the life of the children who live in the mountains?

What words did you find difficult - and how did you get help with them?

What sentences or ideas did you find difficult - and how did you get help with them?

What kind of text was this? Was it fiction or non-fiction?

What did you hope to get out of reading it?

What do you think the author wanted you to get out of it?

What DID you get out of it?

Did you feel it was really true, or not? What made you feel that?

After the rescue, what might have happened next?

What might have happened INSTEAD of what did happen?

What did it remind you of? Did it link to anything else you have heard or read about, or seen on television?

What do you think were the most important ideas?

Which bits made you THINK the hardest?

How did it make you FEEL?

Would you recommend it to a friend? If so, what kind of friend?

## MORE QUESTIONS

Is the text about times gone past, what is happening now in the present, or the future?

Does it have a theme or moral?

Were there any especially interesting or exciting or effective words?

Was it hard to read? Why?

Did any pictures suggest something different or extra to the words?

Did anything mean or imply more than it said on the surface?

What bits did you like best?

What bits did you not like at all?

Did anything puzzle or surprise you?

Do you think there were any bits that were somewhere in between fact and fiction?

Were there ideas or events, that just did not fit together?

What do you think the people felt about what was happening?

Can you think of some other solutions to the problems described?

What do you think caused these problems? One cause or more?

How might these problems have been avoided or resolved?

Did the text end or conclude as you expected?

How else might it have ended?

What did you learn from it, that you might apply to your own life (at home, school, or anywhere)?

How could it be improved?

How would you improve it?