Question/Predict
Facilitate a Questioning Spirit
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
To cultivate a questioning spirit within your classroom, ask questions that allow for a variety of responses. These questions are not about specific details in the reading. Rather, these are bigger questions that make students ponder and think deeply. [read more...]
Questions Increase Student Reading Comprehension
Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Struggling readers do not ask enough questions before they read, while reading, or after reading. They simply read the text, never wondering or questioning the content or the author's purpose. Strong readers ask questions to better understand the text. [read more...]
Incorporate "Answer of the Day" in your Morning Work Routine
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Here’s a great strategy that Linda Settlemyr from South Adams Elementary (Berne, IN) is utilizing based on a poster she purchased from Really Good Stuff. Several times a week, she hangs the poster, which reads Today’s answer is…. In the blank, she posts a noun (e.g. spring or family or [read more...]
Book Recommendation for Questioning & Predicting
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick consists of fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, allowing readers to make up their own stories to complement the pictures. It’s written by the award-winning author/illustrator Chris Van Allsburg, also known for The Polar Express. [read more...]
Turn Subheadings into Questions
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
We know that comprehension increases when students have an authentic purpose for their content-area and textbook reading. Challenge students to turn subheadings into questions, and then their purpose for reading becomes a hunt to find answers to the questions. [read more...]
Pre-Reading Strategies that Motivate
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Teachers frequently ask for ways to motivate kids to want to read. After all, it’s pretty hard to work on students’ reading comprehension if they didn’t do the reading. With that said, here are two of my favorite pre-reading strategies to motivate kids to dive [read more...]
