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It’s all about Comprehension!

It’s all about Comprehension!. The QAR Question Answer Relationship. Comprehension Components. Making Connections Questioning Visualizing/Sensory Images Inferring Determining Importance Synthesizing Monitoring for Meaning or Fix-up Strategies Fix- up Strategies.

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It’s all about Comprehension!

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  1. It’s all about Comprehension! The QAR Question Answer Relationship

  2. Comprehension Components • Making Connections • Questioning • Visualizing/Sensory Images • Inferring • Determining Importance • Synthesizing • Monitoring for Meaning or • Fix-up StrategiesFix- up Strategies

  3. QARis all about thinking…. “It appears that students are learning how to take tests, not how to think.” Stahl, 2002 The QAR is not a test prep… it is a powerful thinking strategy!

  4. QAR Question Answer Relationship QARis away to help students figure out how to go about answering questions based on all content area text

  5. QARQuestion Answer Relationship Students assume that every question’s answer is directly stated somewhere in the text and spend far too much time looking for answers that are not “right there,” and their frustration mounts. QAR strategies help to end that frustration

  6. QARQuestion Answer Relationship QAR teaches our students: • the four basic question-answer relationships • a powerful strategy that will help them to understand the different types of questions • how to effectively and efficiently approach the text based on the different question/answer relationships

  7. Q-A R Question-Answer Relationship Author and You The response to this question asks you to consider the author’s perspective/position and your own experiences and views to formulate a response. Right There It’s right there! The answer to this question can be found in one place in the text. I N T H E B O O K I N M Y H E A D Think and Search Requires students to know how the information or ideas in the text relate to one another and to "search" through the entire passage they read to find information that applies. On Your Own Questions can be answered with information from the students' background knowledge.

  8. QAR Use this Strategy: • Before Reading • During Reading • After Reading Targeted Reading Skills: • Using textual evidence to substantiate textual claims • Drawing conclusions and making inferences based on explicit and implicit information

  9. Right There “Right There” questions require you to go back to the text and find the correct information to answer the question.  These are sometimes called literal questions because the correct answer can be found in one place in the text.  “Right There” questions sometimes include the words, “According to the text…”  “How many…” “Who is…”  “Where is…”  “What is…”

  10. Right There Question Examples • Who was the president in 1884? • How many chemical elements can we find in salt? • What are the beginning and ending dates of World War II? • Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place?

  11. Think and Search “Think and Search” questions usually require you to think about how ideas or information in the text are related.  You will need to look back at the text, find the information that the question refers to, and then think about how the information or ideas fit together. The information may be in multiple places in the text. “Think and Search” questions sometimes include the words, “The main idea of the passage…”  “What caused…”  “Compare/contrast…”

  12. Think and Search Examples • Explain the difference between a solid and a gas. • Give reasons why the civil war began. • Find evidence in the article of causes of pollution. • Give at least three reasons why the south lost the civil war.

  13. Author and You “Author and You” questions require you to use ideas and information that are not stated directly in the text to answer the question.  These questions require you to think about what you have read and formulate your own ideas or opinions.  “Author and You” questions sometimes include the words, “The author implies…”  “The passage suggests…”  “The speaker’s attitude..,”

  14. Author and You Examples • How might the Watson family be similar to and different from your family? • Do you think Jacob’s dream will come true? Why or why not? • Discuss a time when you use tools and compare that to early man’s use of tools. • How is living in Alaska different from living where you live?

  15. On Your Own “On Your Own” questions can be answered using your background knowledge on a topic.  This type of question is the most infrequent question on tests of reading comprehension because it does not require you to refer to the text.  “On Your Own” questions sometimes include the words, “In your opinion…”  Based on your experience…”  “Think about someone or something you know…”

  16. On Your Own Examples • What are some different uses for a wooden frame? • What are some ways that brothers and sisters help each other? • What would you do if you found a kayak? • What do you know about Arctic lands?

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