Description
You don’t need to be an English teacher to raise a critical reader — you just need to know which questions to ask. The 6-Question Framework is a simple, repeatable tool that helps parents and kids break down any poem, story, or novel together, without worksheets or a packaged curriculum. Ask the same six questions every time, and your child builds the confidence to analyze any text on their own — because they know exactly where to start. This guide contains:
- The complete 6-Question Framework — a simple, repeatable system for analyzing any poem, short story, or novel with your child
- Teaching tips for every question, with word-for-word prompts you can ask your child in the moment
- A printable (and digital) graphic organizer to guide your child’s analysis from evidence to inference to insight
- Two flexible teaching approaches (annotate-as-you-read or a graphic organizer), so you can choose what works for your family
- Fully worked examples using real texts — Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” and Langston Hughes’s “Thank You, Ma’am” — broken down question by question
- Key academic vocabulary explained simply — speaker, narrator, bias, message, theme, and more — without the jargon overload
- A bonus mini-unit on “Thank You, Ma’am” (ages 12–18) to help you put the framework into practice right away
- A printable Feelings & Affirmations Checklist to support your child through the moments when reading feels hard
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