Asking Questions

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Asking Questions

• Kyle Alexander
• Dana Libbey
• Carol Michel
• Roxanne Paguio
• Amber Roberts
• Jennie Wright

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Readers ask questions to

• Clarify meaning
• Speculate about text yet to be read
• Determine an authors style, intent, content, or
  format
• Focus attention on specific components of the
  text
• Locate a specific answer in the text or consider
  rhetorical questions inspired by the text

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Purpose for Asking Questions as a Strategy

• Builds comprehension
• Helps students to think more deeply about reading
• Teaches students to make connections between
  thinking and reading
• Teaches students to guide their questioning and
  discern which questions are important

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Strategy Demonstration

• Thinking poster
• Before questions
• Read book and think aloud about questions
• After questions

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Strategy Demonstration

• Labeling questions
• Model question web
• Guided practice groups create their own question
  web

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Debrief

• How can you apply this strategy to your own
  profession (teacher, school psychologist,
  counselor, etc)?
• Berger, B. (1984). Grandfather twilight. New
  York The Putnam Grosset Group.
• Miller, D. (2002). Reading with meaning Teaching
  comprehension in the primary grades. Portland,
  ME Stenhouse.