Teaching Suggestions
Questioning
Emergent(K-1)
p.7
Encourage discussion and value critical thinking about texts.Model using personal experience to ask questions of text. (e.g., I wonder why the author made that pig purple. My father’s pigs aren’t purple.).2 |
Early (1-2)p.80
Give students experiences with the information process through collaborative group effort, using these situations to demonstrate strategies such as - developing questions to guide research (e.g., Where does it live? What does it eat? Who are its enemies?) |
Transitional (3-4)p.94Through collaborative group efforts, demonstrate strategies such as
- brainstorming what they already know - developing questions to guide their research p. 100 Model responding critically to text; e.g., how readers notice patterns in text or ask themselves questions to make sense of text (e.g., “I wonder why the author used this title? I wonder why the illustrator chose to include/exclude this part of the story?”) Engage students in formulating questions to ask in a letter to an author. |