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Renee Jackson Helping Students Answer Questions

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Renee Jackson

Helping Students Answer Questions

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What is QAR?

• QAR: Question-Answer Relationships

• Meta-cognition strategy which:• enhances learners’ ability to answer questions,• generate questions and • pose questions at varying levels of complexity for

reading comprehension

• Readers can rely on two facets of comprehension for answering questions:• 1. text-based information• 2. schema or background knowledge

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How does it work?

QARQuestion Answer Relationships

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Author and Me (In My Head)

• This type of question requires the reader to use ideas and information not stated directly in the text to answer the question. The text can be informational, fictional or non-fiction in nature.

• For example: “What can you infer about Matt’s feelings toward helping his younger brother?”

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Right There (In the Book)

• The answer is in the text. (Remember the text can be in a variety of

forms, including captions). The words used in the question and words used for the answer can usually be found in the same body of text.

• For example: “What year did

the Olustee Battle occur? Where did it happen?”

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Think and Search (In the Book)

• Think and search questions require the reader to (re) search several words, phrases, sentences and section in the text to formulate an answer. According to Bloom’s Taxonomy, the reader must synthesize information together to answer

the question. This requires high order thinking…like a detective!

• For example: “What caused the group of people to run away?”

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On My Own (In My Head)• The reader must think

about:• what they know, • what the author says, and • how both schemes (self thinking,

author thinking) fit together • The reader may be able to

answer without having read the text. A strategic reader will use text to support his/her conclusion.

• For example: “ Why do best friends or siblings need time apart?”

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So makes a scholar a So makes a scholar a better reader?better reader?

Knowing the relationship between a question and an answer.

Read, read, read!Read fun text, like

comics, graphic novels, or the back of a cereal box.

Read informational text, like signposts at the zoo describing animal behavior.

Read technical text, like the instructions to build a birdhouse.