Deep Sea QAR

This higher-level reading comprehension worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 strengthen critical thinking, metacognition, and question-writing skills using the QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) framework. After reading an informational passage about the deep sea, students create their own comprehension questions-one for each QAR type-demonstrating clear understanding of how different questions require different kinds of thinking and evidence.

Learning Goals

• QAR Question Creation (Grades 4-6): Write one Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, and On My Own question based on the passage.
• Literal & Inferential Thinking: Distinguish between questions answered directly from the text and those requiring synthesis or inference.
• Understanding Question Purpose: Analyze how question structure determines the reading strategy needed.
• Text Structure & Detail Awareness: Use accurate details from the passage to craft meaningful questions.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support upper elementary reading comprehension instruction.
• Promotes Metacognition: Encourages students to think about how questions work, not just how to answer them.
• Creativity with Structure: Allows student choice while reinforcing specific comprehension skills.
• Flexible Classroom Use: Ideal for guided reading, strategy lessons, literacy centers, enrichment, or assessment.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen comprehension by reversing the usual process-creating questions instead of only answering them. By designing QAR questions tied to a deep-sea informational text, learners strengthen understanding of literal, inferential, and opinion-based thinking. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this resource provides meaningful practice with comprehension strategies, purposeful question writing, and thoughtful engagement with informational text.

This worksheet is part of our QAR (question-answer relationships) worksheets collection.