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This document discusses questioning strategies when reading texts. It suggests asking prereading questions to guide students and postreading questions to assess understanding. It provides examples of different types of questions for a story, from simple fact-based questions to ones requiring inference. The document advises questioning the author, self-questioning, and using strategies that work for English language learners.

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Question and Questioning New5

This document discusses questioning strategies when reading texts. It suggests asking prereading questions to guide students and postreading questions to assess understanding. It provides examples of different types of questions for a story, from simple fact-based questions to ones requiring inference. The document advises questioning the author, self-questioning, and using strategies that work for English language learners.

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13 Questions and

Questioning

Mengmeng, Lin
When to Ask
 The Right Time and the Right Place

Ø When students are especially in need of guidance—


prereading questions

Ø When selections are more manageable or when the


teacher is aiming for a broader general understanding
of a selection—postreadingquestions

Ø Many teachers use a mix of prereading questions to


guide students’ reading and postreading question to
assess their understanding and stimulate them to
reflect.
What to Ask
The Relation between Questions and Answers
Sample Questions and Answers:
“Goldilocks and the three Bears”
1. Right there:
What were the three bears eating for
breakfast?
Answers: they were eating porridge.
2. Putting it together:
Why was Baby Bear so upset when he came
home?
Answers: Because his breakfast was gone,
his chair was broken, and there was a
stranger sleeping in his bed.
3. Author and You:
What king of a person was goldilocks?
Answer: she was not very nice. She was old. She
was
hungry and tired, and maybe she was lost or
homeless.
4. On Your Own:
Why is it a bad idea to go into a stranger’s house
when
no one is home?
Answers: it is against the law; it is trespassing. The
people would not like it. They might be mean people
How to ask

Questioning the author


Request
Self-questioning
Questioning strategies for English
language learners

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