I purposely select a piece of short text because we can finish it quickly and explore our questions and potential answers with relative ease. Certain genres prompt more questions than others. Mysteries make us wonder about outcomes. Nonfiction stories fill us with questions about the real world and its broad range of unusual things to learn. The crew was missing and was never found.
Questions abound as to the fate of the people on board.
Introduce the Strategy. With the kids gathered in front of me, notebooks in hand, I explain how good readers ask questions when they read because it helps them understand what they're reading. Specifically, I might ask how many of them have questions when they read. I would then tell them that good readers have their own questions and that those questions are really the most important ones. When readers ask questions as they read, it keeps them thinking about the words and ideas in the book.