Comprehension Strategy

1. Questioning Strategies That Work By Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

2. Sensational Strategies Predicting Connections Monitoring Questioning Inferring

3. Questions lead readers deeper into a piece, setting up a dialogue with the author, sparking in readers’ minds what it is they care about. If you ask questions as you read, you are awake. You are thinking. You are engaged. ~ Susan Zimmerman

4. Proficient readers spontaneously and purposefully ask questions before, during, and after reading.

5. Readers ask questions to: Clarify meaning Speculate about text yet to be read Determine an author’s intent, style, content, or form Locate a specific answer in text Consider rhetorical questions inspired by the text

6. Proficient Readers… understand that many of the most intriguing questions can not be answered in the text, but are left to the reader’s interpretation determine whether the answers to their questions can be found in the text or whether they will need to infer the answer using their background knowledge, and/or an outside source

7. Proficient Readers… use questions to focus their attention on ideas, events, or other text elements they want to remember are aware that as they hear others’ questions, new ones – called generative questions – are inspired in their own minds understand and can describe how asking questions deepens their comprehension

8. Where to begin? Model, model, model during Read Aloud Strategies That Work, Chapter 8 – full of lessons for teaching questioning QAR Thick and Thin Questions Anchor Charts The Q Food

9. The Q Food Quinoa – pronounced “keen-wa.” Quinoa is a grain from the Andes Mountains, first used by the Inca civilization. For more information, visit www.quinoa.net

10. The Q Food

14. Thick and Thin Questions

15. Each day after I read a chapter aloud from a class novel, I invite my students to write a thick question on an index card and add it to the card holder on our "Thick Questions" bulletin board. I pick one thick question to ask the class before I begin reading from the novel the following day and lead a brief class discussion.

16. Who owns the questions in our classrooms? The answer is simple: The learner must.