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QAR

QAR. Question Answer Relationships. What is it?. Comprehension Strategy Strategy for Metacognition A common language for Comprehension Instruction that helps students think about and talk about where they find answers to questions. Why use QAR?. Provides a purpose for reading the text

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QAR

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  1. QAR Question Answer Relationships

  2. What is it? • Comprehension Strategy • Strategy for Metacognition • A common language for Comprehension Instruction that helps students think about and talk about where they find answers to questions.

  3. Why use QAR? • Provides a purpose for reading the text • Helps students monitor and assess their comprehension • Encourages Elaborative and Critical Thinking • Helps students understand that they can be co-author of a text.

  4. Components of QAR In the Book In My Head Author and Me On My Own Right There Think and Search

  5. Question Stems

  6. How it Works Goldilocks and The Three Bears

  7. Your Turn! • Read the passage • Read the multiple choice questions • Classify the questions *In the Book *In your Head • Share Your Thinking

  8. Now You Try It! • Look at the article on your table • Write questions for the article *In The Book *In Your Head • Share Your Thinking

  9. Developmental Progression • Primary Level K-1 • In the Book • In the Head 2nd Grade • Differentiate between Right there / Think & Search • Middle Level Grades 3-5 • Differentiate between all four QAR question types • Apply QAR to Comprehension Strategy Instruction • Integrate QAR into Content Areas

  10. School – Wide Implementation

  11. So What? • QAR “demystifies” where questions come from and gives them strategies to find the answers. • QAR empowers students to be more active in their reading. • Students can systematically analyze questions on high stakes tests and have confidence in their answers.

  12. So What ? (continued) • QAR levels the playing field for disadvantaged students by providing a common language *for high level comprehension instruction *across grade levels and ability levels • Enhances Literacy Curriculum NOT Adding to already packed curriculum

  13. Resources • QAR Now by Taffy E. Raphael • QAR: Enhancing comprehension and test taking across grades and content areas By Taffy Raphael (The Reading Teacher Vol. 59, No. 3) • Comprehension Tool Kit – by Fountas/Pinnell • Readwritethink.org – by IRA and NCTE

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