Guides to Creative Questioning for Children’s Literature

About this curriculum

The Guide to Creative Questioning series, for parents and instructors of students in kindergarten through the eighth grade, is designed to develop critical and creative thinking in children and teens through an array of classic and beloved stories from primary-, elementary-, and middle-grade literature. The books provide a range of questions for each literary work that will challenge students to expand and develop their thinking skills. The Guide to Creative Questioning series (originally published under the title Suppose the Wolf Were an Octopus ) is an essential resource for parents and instructors of students in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, it is designed to develop critical and creative thinking in children and teens through primary-, elementary-, and middle-grade literature. Most reading programs follow a standard format: the students read a literary work, and the instructor asks questions about specific characters or plot points in the book to ensure that the students actually read and understood the work. But when the questioning stops there, it does a disservice both to the students and to the literature itself.…