Questioning

=Reading Apprenticeship Resources=  In support of the role questioning plays in comprehension and improved test taking across content areas.

A how-to guide on bringing questioning into your classroom. Explains the scaffolding process beginning with explicit strategy instruction and including modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and student initiated independent application. (The guiding resource for the March 30th inservice session.)

Additional options for scaffolding QAR instruction, including sample texts and strategies for student practice.

 Sample questions for multiple genres, including the four levels of questioning (Right There, Think & Search, On My Own, Author & Me) and when to use questions from each level (before, during, or after reading).

=Supplementals= Here are some RA inspired supplemental resources for extending student understanding of Question Answer Relationships within the context of a novel study.

 Explains the purpose/use of each of the following documents. Make your own version of these posters for explicit strategy instruction and student reference! (Illustrate the levels of questioning and the required elements of response for each level.)  Serves as a notes/response space with a focus on levels of questioning. (Asks students to write original questions during reading.)
 * //Any of the following documents can be altered for use within multiple genres!//**

Four-square space for use within a small group JIGSAW activity in which students brought original questions to class, compared and shared within small groups, selected and recorded their best examples for each level of questioning, and wrote a collaborative justification of how each orginal question fit its level.

 A double-entry journal which requires students to
 * select and record a classmate's Author & Me level question
 * answer the question using
 * specific textual evidence
 * prior knowledge
 * critical thinking