Assessing Comprehension of Text Strategies for Effective Questioning

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Assessing Comprehension of Text Strategies for
Effective Questioning

• Created By
• Angela Thill, Cassandra King, Emily Tesch, and
  Kayla Crawford

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Retelling

• Description Retelling is a technique in which a
  reader makes a mental representation of the story
  and uses it to orally retell the story. The
  student tells about the characters, setting,
  problem, main episodes, and resolution.

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Retelling Cont.

• There are five steps for helping students retell
  successfully
• Retelling is an effective comprehension strategy

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B. Blooms Taxonomy
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Pearson and Johnson Taxonomy
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Question Answer Relationships

• The purpose of question-answer relationships is
  to teach children how to identify the types of
  questions asked of them as well as to determine
  the appropriate sources of information necessary
  to answer those questions.

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Four Question-Answer Relationships

• Right There
• Think and Search
• Author and You
• On My Own
• When will these types of questions be asked?

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Asking Prereading vs. Postreading Questions

• Prereading questions
• set students on right path
• Postreading questions
• clarify what they have
• learned

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Reciprocal Questioning

• Students must at some point become responsible
  for their own learning.
• Children need to ask their own questions about
  reading
• Example kinds of questions
• Clarification, Why and How
• Ask them prediction questions

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Wait Time

• Faster is better teaching philosophy?
• Cover more material, maintained student interest
• 3 seconds or more
• Improves achievement and retention
• Decreases students failure to respond
• Wait time facts from research

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Questions Can Help Students Reconstruct a Model
of Text for Remembering

• Story Grammar Mapping Improved Comprehension
• Setting
• Problem
• Goal
• Events
• Resolution
• Activity

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Increasing Student Involvement

• Whole Group Response Method
• Yes/No
• True/False
• Choral Reponses Method
• Personal Chalkboards/Magic Slates

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Sources-Teaching Children to Read by D. Ray
Reutzel and Robert B. Cooter, Jr.- Diagnostic
Teaching of Readingby Barbara J.
Walker-Classroom Questioning (Wait
Time)httpwww.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/3/cu5.html-Li
teracy-Reciprocal Teaching http//ed-web3/educ.ms
u.edu/literacy/stuwork/recip.htm- Pedagogical
Content Knowledge Taxonomieshttp//unr.edu/homepa
ge/crowther/ejse/vealmak.html