QuestionAnswer Relationships

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Question-Answer Relationships

By Janet Stos
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Purpose

• The purpose of the QAR strategy is to show that
  questions and answers have a variety of sources,
  and that learning about questions and their
  answers will help readers become better at
  understanding and answering questions.
• 2004 Iowa Department of Education

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Rationale

• QAR gives students the language for talking about
  the strategies they use to answer questions. It
  also helps students to develop an awareness of
  their own cognitive processes when answering
  questions.
• 2004 Iowa Department of Education

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Question-Answer Relationships

What is it?
By Janet Stos
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Question-Answer-Relationship

• Four categories of questions
• are studied during strategy
• use and practice.

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TWO are text-based QARs

• RIGHT THERE questions ask
• students to respond at the literal level
• the words used to answer the questions
• can be found right there in the
• same sentence of the text.

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THINK AND SEARCH

• These questions require students to think
  about how the information or ideas in the text
  relate to one another,
• and to search through the entire
• passage to find the
• information that applies.

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TWO are knowledge-based QARs

• Students must use their prior knowledge to answer
  Author and You/Me questions.
• Their answer will include information
• that is beyond what is
• found in the text. They must
• read the text to
• understand what the
• question is asking.

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• Author and You/Me questions may begin with
  statements like
• What reason is there
• Is it true that
• What beliefs justify
• In your opinion what inconsistencies
• Judge the effects of.

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• Example Author and You/Me
• The topic of the reading was cloning.
• In what instances, if ever, do
• you think cloning should
• be used?

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ON MY OWN (2nd knowledge based question)

• These questions can be answered with information
  from the students
• background knowledge and
• DO NOT require reading
• from the text.

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Example ON MY OWN

• Create a childrens story where
• the discovery of a strange new
• creature leads the characters on an
• amazing adventure.

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