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QuestioningStrategies That Work
By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Sensational Strategies Predicting Connections Monitoring Questioning Inferring
Questions lead readers deeper into a piece, setting up a dialogue with the author, sparking in readers’ minds what it is they care about. If you ask questions as you read, you are awake. You are thinking. You are engaged.
~ Susan Zimmerman
Proficient readers spontaneously and purposefully ask questions before, during, and after reading.
Readers ask questions to:Clarify meaningSpeculate about text yet to be readDetermine an author’s intent, style,
content, or formLocate a specific answer in textConsider rhetorical questions inspired by the text
Proficient Readers…understand that many of the most intriguing
questions can not be answered in the text, but are left to the reader’s interpretation
determine whether the answers to their questions can be found in the text or whether they will need to infer the answer using their background knowledge, and/or an outside source
Proficient Readers…use questions to focus their attention on
ideas, events, or other text elements they want to remember
are aware that as they hear others’ questions, new ones – called generative questions – are inspired in their own minds
understand and can describe how asking questions deepens their comprehension
Where to begin?Model, model, model during Read
AloudStrategies That Work, Chapter 8 –
full of lessons for teaching questioning
QARThick and Thin Questions Anchor ChartsThe Q Food
The Q FoodQuinoa – pronounced “keen-wa.”Quinoa is a grain from the Andes Mountains,
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The Q Food
QAR Question Answer Relationships
IN THE TEXT
Right There – literal question, answer can be found in text
Think and Search – how the information or ideas in the text relate to one another, must summarize, compare, contrast, explain
QAR Question Answer Relationships
IN MY HEAD
Author and You – answer not in the text, but you must have read the text to answer the question
On My Own – questions can be answered with information from the student’s background and does not require reading the text
Thick and Thin Questions
Each day after I read a chapter aloud from a class novel, I invite my students to write a thick question on an index card and add it to the card holder on our "Thick Questions" bulletin board. I pick one thick question to ask the class before I begin reading from the novel the following day and lead a brief class discussion.
Who owns the questions in our classrooms?
The answer is simple: The learner must.