Question sets encourage students to ask and answer questions about the texts they read, all while singling out the pertinent details and deemphasizing the less important ones. Question sets also support students’ understanding of text structures and help students make high-level inferences about the evidence presented in the text. In addition to demonstrating how contextual clues can be used to deduce the meaning of vocabulary words, question sets allow students to complete open-response answers based on a thoughtful evaluation of the text.
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