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Strategies for Questions. Click for Teacher Pages. Learning Objective. The students will identify different types of questions and apply these strategies to reading comprehension. continue. Teacher Page. The students will view a series of slides and practice identifying, answering,
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Strategies for Questions Click for Teacher Pages
Learning Objective The students will identify different types of questions and apply these strategies to reading comprehension. continue
Teacher Page The students will view a series of slides and practice identifying, answering, and writing questions. There are essentially 4 types of questions used to analyse texts. They are… 1. Right there questions/literal 2. Think and search questions/re-organisation/inferential 3. Author and me questions/inferential/responsive 4. On my own questions/responsive continue
Procedure 1. The teacher will click through each of the slides. 2. Discuss the different types of questions. Related Activity: Distribute a test that the students have taken. Identify the question types used on the test.
There are many kinds of questions. What is your name? How many days until your birthday? Which character was the friendliest? What is your favorite color?
“Right There”Hand/Literal You can point to the answer “right there” in the text.
“Right There”Hand/Literal What kind of animal did Mary have? Mary had a little lamb. It’s fleece was white as snow.
“Think and Search”Hand & HeadLiteral re-organisation/Inferential You need to Search the text for information and Think about what you know.
“Think and Search” Hand & HeadLiteral/Inferential Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick. How are the two Jack’s similar? How are they different?
“Author and Me”Head & HeartInferential/Responsive To answer these questions you combine what you know or have experienced with what is in the text.
“Author and Me” Head & HeartInferential/Responsive Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? What could they want to do with the wool?
“On My Own” Head & HeartResponsive To answer On My Own questions you use your own experiences and opinions.
“On My Own”Head & HeartResponsive Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? What would you plant in your garden?
When answering questions… Ask yourself, what type of a question is it? Do I need to scan the text to locate the information? Do I need to gather information from more than one place in the text and think about what I know? Do I need to think about what the text says and apply what I know? Do I need to connect to my own personal experiences and think about my opinions?
Practice writing questions for something you are reading. Question types are: 1. Right there. 2. Think and search. 3. Author and me. 4. On my own. The end