Teach your students to ask questions about what they are reading. Read a book or a piece of text to your class and use yourself as a model on how to ask questions during reading. Read a little bit and ask the class out loud some preliminary questions about the text that would help you understand it better. Some examples of preliminary questions are: "What do I think the story is about based upon the title?" "Is this a true story?" and "What predictions can I make about this story just from the little bit that I have read?"
Take pauses between sections and passages of the book to ask and answer questions that you have about the text out loud so the class can hear. Stop to ask questions at convenient points in the text that do not hinder the flow of your reading. Ask questions such as: "What is the central idea of the story?" "Do I fully understand what I have just read?" and "Do I need to reread what I have just read to better understand it?"
Re-read the text and ask the class review questions. Review questions help you summarize what you have just read, better understand the reading and remember the most important pieces of information. Ask the class if your predictions about the text were correct and how they feel about the text.
Teach your students how to ask questions about the elements of a story. Introduce the concepts of plot, characters, setting and theme. Show them how to ask questions about a story's elements while they are reading and how these questions can help them better understand and appreciate a story.
Encourage your students to make up their own questions about reading material. Tell them to write questions on a piece of paper and to answer their questions by themselves or with the help of their friends. Show them how to generate new questions based upon the answers to their original questions. Make sure your students are not focused on just finding the correct answer, because some questions are subjective, but are actively seeking answers from their own natural curiosity.