The Easter Bunny’s Assistant Pre K

At the core of any effective read aloud are different types of comprehension questions. Specifically, comprehension questions that cover different elements of literature and different levels of comprehension. 

Let’s explore this by looking at the reading comprehension questions you will find in our preschool read aloud for The Easter Bunny’s Assistant. 

Story Sequencing and Character Questions

Before students can dive deeper into a text they first need to have a basic understanding of what is happening in the story. Therefore, all of our read alouds begin with basic level comprehension questions. These are comprehension questions that can be answered with explicit textual evidence. 

In each of our read alouds, we begin these comprehension questions before students even begin reading. Then, we continue to engage students in developing their understanding of the text by exploring additional comprehension questions related to story sequencing and story elements. 

Here is a quick peek at some of these basic comprehension questions included in our Pre K read aloud for The Easter Bunny’s Assistant: 

• What is the Title of the Story? 
• Does the picture on the cover give us any clues about what the story is about?

• What happens in the beginning? 
• What happens in the middle?
• How does the story end? 

• Who are the characters? 
• What does Easter Bunny want? 
• What problem does Easter bunny have? 

Craft and Structure Comprehension Questions 

After you read the story with your students and answer the before reading, story sequencing, and story element questions, we suggest you take a pause. Then, the next day invite students to return to the story and dive deeper into the text. 

By chunking the reading lessons into several days of learning students get time to process the elements of the text. Moreover, they learn how important it is to return to a text, and that we don’t usually learn everything just from reading a text one time. This is why we have created all of our read alouds to be taught over the course of three days. 

The questions above are the types of questions we suggest you focus on during your first read. Then, on day two explore the book through questions related to the characters and craft and and structure. 

Here are some examples of the types of questions you can use to teach about characters and how the author crafted the story: 

• How does Easter Bunny feel in the beginning of the story? What about Skunk?
• How do the characters feel in the end? 

• What happens as Easter Bunny teaches Skunk how to hard-boil the eggs and make dye?
• What happens when Easter Bunny dyes teh eggs himself?
• Who is telling the story? 

Comprehension Questions about Words and Illustrations

On day three, students get to deepen their understanding of the text by going beyond the words. This is an excellent way to teach kids that reading is not only about the written words but being able to analyze other parts of the text, like the illustrations. 

We have shared a few of the questions about words and illustrations that are included in the preschool read aloud for The Easter Bunny’s Assistant below. Take a look at this to get an idea of how you students will demonstrate their understanding through these types of questions. 

• What happens when Skunk gets excited? How does the illustration help you know?
• Why does Skunk say, “pleasant” on this page? 
• How is Easter bunny able to work with Skunk again? What does the illustration show?