Question of the Month: Installment 2

Anne guided our groups through the cooperative learning tool, jigsaws. How did you use jigsaws with your students?

She also provided us with some graphic organizers. Please feel free to share any cool application you've thought of for them.

QAR

Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) is a powerful, research-based approach for improving reading comprehension. It's really quite simple. Taffy Raphael, who is credited with the strategy, suggested that there are four kinds of questions, each of which is answered with a different source.

RIGHT THERE
THINK & SEARCH
ON MY OWN
AUTHOR & ME

*Meredith's handout explains each kind and how answers are crafted

Once you:

Teach kids how to discriminate between the four types of questions,
Model it,
Practice with them,
Then set them free to read, answer and ask their own questions...
They will be able to ask denser, better questions,
Be able to discern exactly what the question asker is looking for in an answer.

You can imagine all the cool and fruitful applications, I am sure!