From Dinner Table Literacy
Dinner Table Cards
pick a card. pass the potatoes.
Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is a book or show everyone loves that you think is overrated?
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House rules
- Everyone answers, grown-ups included. Kids talk more when we go first.
- No wrong answers. "I don't know" is allowed. So is "pass."
- Follow-up questions are the good part. "Why?" and "Then what?" go a long way.
- Print a deck, cut on the dashed lines, and keep the cards in a jar on the table.
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If you could shrink down and live inside any book, which one would you pick?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
What made you laugh today?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If an animal could talk to you for one minute, which animal would you pick? What would it say?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
What would you name a dragon?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
Which character from a story would you want as your best friend?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If you wrote a book about today, what would the title be?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
What is something you were brave about today?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If you could change the ending of a story you know, which one would you change?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If you had a magic backpack, what three things would be inside?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
What is a new word you learned this week?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
Would you rather be a giant in a tiny town or tiny in a giant town?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
What should the bad guy in your favorite story have done instead?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
Tell a story that starts with: "Once upon a time, a potato..."
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
If you could invent a holiday, what would we celebrate?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
Who did you help today? Who helped you?
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Little Kids · ages 4 to 8
Which book should we read together next?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is a book or show everyone loves that you think is overrated?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
If your life were a book, what would this chapter be called?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
Which character would you trust with a secret? Which one never?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is something you changed your mind about this year?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
If you could ask any author one question, who would you ask and what would it be?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is the hardest thing about being your age that adults forget?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
Who is a villain you secretly understood?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
If you could add one class to your school, what would it be?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is a rule you think is unfair? How would you rewrite it?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
Which book or movie world would be the worst place to actually live?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What are you really good at that nobody at school knows about?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
If you could swap lives with a character for one day, who would it be?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What is the best plot twist you have ever seen?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
If you started a club, what would it be about?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What do you hope people say about you when you are not in the room?
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Tweens · ages 9 to 12
What word do you love just because of how it sounds?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is a book you were assigned that was actually good? Be honest.
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Teens · ages 13 and up
Is it ever okay to lie? When?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is something adults get completely wrong about your generation?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
Which fictional character are you most like? Are you happy about that?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is a headline from this week that made you think?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
How do you decide whether something you read online is true?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What song would be the soundtrack of your year so far?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
Who do you admire who is not famous?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is an opinion you hold that you think most people would disagree with?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What would you do with a completely free Saturday and no phone?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What story changed the way you see something?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
Is it more important to be right or to be kind? When are those different?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
If you wrote a novel, what would it be about?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is one thing you wish you had learned earlier?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
Who is the main character in our family? Who is the comic relief?
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Teens · ages 13 and up
What is something you are looking forward to that nobody knows about?
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