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10 questions for quality of life reading:
Voices of Children Comprehension Questions:
Understanding what you read:
1. Identify the country each character in the radio drama is from.
2. What important part of quality of life is uncertain in Kakooza’s, Padmini’s, and Amy’s lives?
Thinking about what you read:
3. Analyze how the following Arabian proverb connects to the lives of Kakooza, Padmini, and Amy: “He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.”
4. Amy mentions that she started coughing and felt like a fish out of water. Explain what Amy means when she uses this phrase.
Questioning what you read:
5. Why do you think the author wrote this radio drama?
6. Explain why you think the author chose to write about three people from different places.
Making connections with what you read:
7. What is one way you could improve your quality of life?
8. What is one way you could improve the quality of life for other people where you live?
Further discussion questions:
9. How might air pollution be related to a person’s quality of life?
10. How might world leaders and governments be able to improve the quality of people’s lives?
Voices of Children Comprehension Questions:
Understanding what you read:
1. Identify the country each character in the radio drama is from.
2. What important part of quality of life is uncertain in Kakooza’s, Padmini’s, and Amy’s lives?
Thinking about what you read:
3. Analyze how the following Arabian proverb connects to the lives of Kakooza, Padmini, and Amy: “He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything.”
4. Amy mentions that she started coughing and felt like a fish out of water. Explain what Amy means when she uses this phrase.
Questioning what you read:
5. Why do you think the author wrote this radio drama?
6. Explain why you think the author chose to write about three people from different places.
Making connections with what you read:
7. What is one way you could improve your quality of life?
8. What is one way you could improve the quality of life for other people where you live?
Further discussion questions:
9. How might air pollution be related to a person’s quality of life?
10. How might world leaders and governments be able to improve the quality of people’s lives?
by Mr. Barr