Questioning

Students are currently practising the reading strategy questioning in ELA. We have read and re-read Eve Bunting's "The Wednesday Surprise" (a terrific book). As a class we made questions during our first time reading and now we are coding our questions in 2 ways:

1) Do our questions help us to better understand the characters/story (U) or not (N), and

2) Were our questions answered in the text (A), do we have to infer (I) or find answers from an outside source (OS) (Codes from Debbie Miller's "Reading with Meaning").

We have quite the class of questioning readers!! Students have discussed how questioning helps us better understand the story, makes us want to read on and allows us to share with peers.

Next, students will apply what they know about questioning to Pauline Cartwright's "A Special Occasion."