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QUESTION THE AUTHOR

QUESTION THE AUTHOR. Mark Bellinger and Cheryl Kaul. BACKGROUND. Question the Author is a reading comprehension strategy. Requires students to pose queries while reading the text. Primarily used with nonfiction text. Requires prep work on the part of the instructor. BENEFITS.

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QUESTION THE AUTHOR

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  1. QUESTION THE AUTHOR Mark Bellinger and Cheryl Kaul

  2. BACKGROUND • Question the Author is a reading comprehension strategy. • Requires students to pose queries while reading the text. • Primarily used with nonfiction text. • Requires prep work on the part of the instructor.

  3. BENEFITS Aims to engage all students with the text. Challenges their understanding and solidifies their knowledge. Lets students critique the author’s writing. Lets students engage with the author on a critical level.

  4. HOW TO USE THE STRATEGY Select reading material that is interesting and can spur good conversation. Decide on appropriate stopping points. Create questions to encourage critical thinking for each stopping point.

  5. THREE MAINQUESTIONCATEGORIES Initiating Queries Follow-Up Queries Narrative Queries

  6. INITIATINGQUERIES Help establish the main idea presented in the text. Prepare students to construct meaning of the piece of text they are reading.

  7. EXAMPLES OFINITIATINGQUERIES What is the author trying to say here? What is the author’s message? What is the author talking about?

  8. FOLLOW-UPQUERIES Help focus the content and direction of the discussion. Helps the students look at what the text means rather than what the text says.

  9. EXAMPLES OFFOLLOW-UPQUERIES What does the author mean here? Does the author tell us why? Why do you think that the author tells us this now? How does this connect to what the author told us here?

  10. NARRATIVEQUERIES Used because narrative texts have different characteristics than expository text. Queries often deal with characters, theme, and plot.

  11. EXAMPLES OFNARRATIVEQUERIES How do things look for this character now? Given what the author has already told you about this character, what do you think he’s up to? How has the author let you know that something has changed? How has the author settled this for us?

  12. STRATEGYENCOURAGES Increased student motivation and engagement. More frequent student-to-student interactions. Increased student understanding of the text. Development of critical thinking skills.

  13. EFFECTIVENESS 1999 study compared effects of Question the Author (questioning during reading) vs. Great Books approach (questioning after reading). Recall was higher for Question the Author. 1996 year long study found significant improvement in student understanding. Neither study used scientific methodology.

  14. SOURCES All About Adolescent Literacy: http://www.adlit.org/strategies/19796 Florida Online Reading Professional Development: http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratQtA.html Florida Center for Reading Research: http://www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/PDF/QuestioningAuthorFinal.pdf

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