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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Want Strategic Readers? Ask Strategic Questions
Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Want
Strategic Readers? Ask Strategic Questions. Some are instructional and content resources,
and others are professional resources. *
Instructional and Content Resources
| Using QARs to Develop Comprehension and Reflective Reading Habits |   | ORC# 4745 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=232 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 3 - 7 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Mature readers move from reading for literal comprehension to developing inferential comprehension strategies. This lesson provides a foundation for building reflective reading habits, which enables students to develop these higher-level comprehension strategies.... | | MORE... |
| Questioning | | ORC# 8712 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategies_each.aspx?id=000... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 4 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: "Browse Reading Strategies" includes a list of reading strategies, each of which opens to a full resource on the strategy. "Questioning" is an excellent resource for teachers and educators seeking more information about strategies for questioning (OGT et al.), and can be linked to directly: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategy_each.aspx?id=000003.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS | | MORE... |
| Module Makers: Building Online Research Modules | | ORC# 1080 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://questioning.org/module/module.html | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This online research module creator guides teachers through the process of building an online research project that will engage and challenge students. These modules can be designed to integrate research and presentation strategies with challenging content from state academic content standards.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Socratic Seminars | | ORC# 2412 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.studyguide.org/socratic_seminar.htm | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 8 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: The Socratic method uses dialogue to encourage critical thinking as students ask meaningful questions and share thoughtful ideas. After students read and examine a common piece of text, open-ended questions are posed.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
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| Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Question-Answer Relationships | | ORC# 8693 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qar.html | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 5 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This site briefly examines question-answer relationships in order to help educators facilitate the question-answer response in their classroom. Several key areas of question-answer relationships are addressed: (1) the definition of a question-answer relationship; (2) an explanation of the four QARs ("right there," "think and search," "author and you," and "on my own"); (3) a sample, download and print version of a QAR graphic organizer; (4) a download and print version of a QAR concept map; and (5) an example of what this question-answer relationship looks like in practice.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
Professional Resources
| Improving Literary Understanding Through Classroom Conversation | | ORC# 789 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://cela.albany.edu/env.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 1 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Drawn from the research of Judith Langer at the Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA), this resource examines how students think when they discuss literature and offers ideas on how to use classroom discourse to deepen students' thinking. The resource begins with an overview of the research study and a list of guiding questions, which serves as a model for students to use during classroom discussions in posing their own questions.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Restate the Question" | | ORC# 4595 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0341ch01.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 3 - 6 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This chapter contains an in-depth look at using the restate-the-question strategy to improve student writing in the classroom, in high stakes testing, and in content-area assessment. The author describes the strategy as both a real-world skill and a portal to good answers in spoken and written form.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| A Questioning Toolkit | | ORC# 8692 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Kindergarten - Grade 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This professional resource houses a valuable and virtually exhaustive list of ways to generate questions. Author Jamie McKenzie uses graphic organizers and bulleted points to create visual concepts of questioning skills.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
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