As you are reading with your child at home you may want to ask them critical thinking skill questions to help them with comprehension skills and to promote higher order thinking skills. Some of these questions that encourage evaluative thinking are listed below: 1. Did you enjoy this story? Why or why not? 2. What was the most important thing that happened in this story? 3. Who is the most important character in this story and why do you think so? 4. If you could be any character in the story who would you be and why? 5. What did you like best about this story? 6. How does this story make you feel? 7. Why do you think the author wrote this story? 8. Do you think the characters made the best decision? Why or why not? 9. What words did the author use that you really liked? Why? 10. What kind of award do you think this book deserves? Why? 11. How would you end this story differently? 12. What clues could help you solve the problem in the story? 13. If you could talk to a character what would you say? 14.What parts of the story may not be "real"? What parts are real? How do you know? 15. What is the message in this story?What other stories have a similar message? 16. What do you think could happen next in the story if it continued?