Ask students questions with answers that can be found in a specific place in the text they have read. You might ask then for the names of main characters, for example, or what occurred at a certain time in the text. Yo could have students make a time line of the main events. This type of questioning helps with comprehension as it develops recall, helping students to remember the events and characters in a text.
Use questioning to develop students' inferential ability. Ask questions with answers that relate to information that can be found in the text, but that require students to think more deeply and make inferences from this information. You could ask students to describe a character's personality, for example, or to explain why they think a character behaved in a certain way. Ask students why they think events happened as they did; what were the causes of events and what were the effects? Try using hot-seating, where a student plays a character and answers questions from classmates. Not only does this help students to understand a character's personality, it also helps them to think about the questions they need to ask when reading.
Some questions require a student to to find evidence and ideas from the text and use this information along with his previous knowledge to reach conclusions. The answers are not directly stated in a text; the reader must understand what he has read and use this, along with his own ideas, to answer the question. You might ask how a certain character is like a character in another text or what the student thinks might happen next in the story based on what has already happened and on how similar stories have ended.
Use questioning to help students make judgments and evaluate what they have read. Ask them why they liked or did not like a story. Have them describe how the writer created tension or built an atmosphere. Ask them if characters were realistic and if so, why, and if not, why not. Encourage students to question each other about their opinions and to always use evidence and reasons to back their ideas.