READING STRATEGY: Question-Answer Relationship

1. READING STRATEGY: Question-Answer Relationship Preparing for the arrival of Common Core Standards in Social Studies

2. Common Standards • We are preparing our students to be college ready and literate. • The Common Core Standards will not replace Social Studies Standards. • We want our students to read, to write, to listen and to speak proficiently.

3. Common Core Standards:Goals in Social Studies • We want our students to engage in • high quality literary • informational text • thoughtful discussion of text • With the development of reading skills, our students will be improve content knowledge, reasoning skills and thoughtful citizens.

4. What is Social Studies Role? • Grades 9th through 12th Grades, students will focus on 30% of literary text and 70% will be on informational text. • According to Tim Shanahan, Informational text provides information about the social or natural world, and deals with classes of objects and experiences rather than individual instances.

5. What is Social Studies Role? • Social Studies teachers needs to assist English teachers in covering informational text. • The students will continue to be exposed to fiction, drama, and poetry in their English classes. • Social Studies classes and English classes must collaborate in selection of reading material.

6. Role of Social Studies in Reading • According to Fisher, Frey and Lapp, teachers can assist in reading by comprehension, word solving, text structures and text features. • Social Studies teachers can help with visualizing, inferring, summarizing, predicting, questioning or monitoring.

7. Common Core and Reading • Goal 1: students will be able to understand and clarify “unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues.” • Goal 2 : students will be able to analyze the text. • Goal 3: students will be able to provide evidence to support their opinions.

8. Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) • Finding the answers in the text: “Right There” are answers that are found in one. sentence. 2. “Think and Search” are located in the text but the answer is one or more sentences.

9. Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) 3. “Author and You” are answers that can be found in the text but your background knowledge will assist you in the answer. 4. “On your Own” are answers based on prior knowledge and the text may be needed or not.

10. Question-Answer Relationship

11. Examples of Queries: we want our students to create this questions on their own.

12. Sources • Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst • Text Complexity by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp. • A Close Look at Close Reading by Beth Burke • Questioning The Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement With Text by I.L. Beck, M.G. McKeown, R.L. Hamilton and L. Kugan • Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst • Text Complexity by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp. • A Close Look at Close Reading by Beth Burke • Questioning The Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement With Text by I.L. Beck, M.G. McKeown, R.L. Hamilton and L. Kugan