QR Critters: Nonfiction Reading Questions

This interactive packet is just what you need and your students will love to cover a wide variety of standards-aligned questions on any piece of fiction reading!

This packet includes 60 QR Code Cards that are full of a range of questions! They are broken into before, during, and after reading questions and focus specifically on nonfiction reading and comprehension strategies.

Each QR code features adorable reading monsters and an smartphone image with a QR Code inside. Students can use any QR reader (available as a free app on any tablet or smartphone) to scan the code that will pull up a numbered question.

Students will use the included recording sheet to write down the question number and answer the question based on their reading. Perfect for differentiation and year-long use since these questions work with ANY NONFICTION book or passage!

The last two pages are for teacher reference and include every numbered question broken into topics. Cards are included to be covers or bin labels, depending on how you want to store these. I like to bind them with a binder ring with the cover, or you could also store these in a bin from the Dollar Store and use the cover as a label-- lots of possibilities!

Great for use in:
- setting a purpose for reading
- book talks
- informal assessments
- partner conversations
- research
- weekly nonfiction readers (Scholastic News, TFK, etc.)
- Guided Reading
- fast finisher station
- Daily 5
- and more!!

These work perfectly with my top-selling Nonfiction Text Features pack available HERE.

** Be sure to download the PREVIEW to see the many pieces and parts to this packet**

These QR Code questions address the following 3rd Grade Common Core State Standards:
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.8 Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.9 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

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