Question-Answer Relationships

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Question-Answer Relationships

By Janet Stos
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Purpose

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

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Rationale

• Teaching students about QAR gives them 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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• QAR (Raphael, 1982,1986) is a strategy that is
  designed to demystify the questioning process,
  providing the teachers and students with a common
  
• vocabulary to discuss different types of
  questions and sources of information for
  answering these questions
• ---McREL

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• Reference Teaching Reading in the Content
  Areas If not me then who?
• By Rachel Billmeyer, Ph.D
• Mary Lee Barton, M.Ed.
• 2nd Edition, publisher, McREL

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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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• Right There questions may begin with words such
  as
• Who is
• Where is
• List
• How many
• What is
• When is

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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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• Think and Search questions may begin with words
  like
• Summarize
• What caused
• Compare
• Explain
• Retell
• Contrast
• Find two examples

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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 motive is there
• Is it valid 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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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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Lets Compare
Blooms Taxonomy QAR
Knowledge Right There questions
Comprehension Think and Search
Application Think and Search
Analysis Author and You/Me
Synthesis On My Own
Evaluation On My Own
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The Woggily Thonk (A Cautionary Tale)

• Once upon a time there was a woggily thonk. The
  woggily thonk loved to squonk. One day the squonk
  decided to squonk murrily over the herp.
• What squonked?
• How would you describe the thonk?
• Where did it squonk?
• How did it squonk?

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Question-Answer Relationships

Why use it?
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• QAR explicitly shows the relationship between
  questions and answers.
• QAR categorizes different types and levels of
  questions which helps students analyze,
  comprehend and respond to text concepts
• QAR helps refute the common misconception that
  the text
• has all the answers.

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Question-Answer Relationships

How to use it?
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• Show them
• (model)
• Help them
• (guide)
• Let them (provide practice)

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• How do I increase the likelihood that my students
  will independently use the strategies that I
  teach?
• Answer Students need to be explicitly taught
  the answers to these 4 questions..

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1. What is the strategy called?
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2. How do I perform the strategy?
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3. When do I use this strategy?
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4. Why would I use this strategy?
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• How do I get students to determine the
  question-answer relationships?
• Answer Help them create a clear picture of the
  difference between IN THE BOOK and IN MY HEAD
  QARs then

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• Help them create a clear picture of the 4 levels
  of question answer relationships found within in
  each source IN THE BOOK Right There, Think
  Search and IN MY HEAD Author Me, and On My Own.

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QAR Poster
Click on BACK button after viewing QAR poster to
continue with the PowerPoint presentation
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Lets Practice QAR

• QAR PRACTICE

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QAR Chemistry Assignment
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Understanding and Applying QAR

• Directions With your group, brainstorm a list of
  the various settings and
• situations that you can use QAR with during
  the rest of the school year.

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Understanding and Applying QAR

• Directions Answer each question as thoroughly
  as you can.
• 1.What is QAR?
• 2. How do you use QAR?
• 3.When do you use QAR?
• 4. Why do you use QAR?

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1.What is QAR?
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What is QAR?

• A reading strategy that gives teachers and
  students a common vocabulary for discussing text.
• A reading strategy that includes IN THE BOOK and
  IN MY HEAD levels of questions.
• A reading strategy that teaches four types of
  questions and their relationships to the answers.
• Right There, Think and Search, Author and You, On
  My Own.
• A reading strategy that can be easily implemented
  across the curriculum!

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2. How do you use QAR?
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How Do you Use QAR?

• Begin by teaching the students the
• necessary vocabulary Right There, etc.
• Model the 4 types of Questions (show them)
• Guide students (help them) by having them
  identify different types of questions and then
  answer them correctly.
• Have students (let them) write and label the
  different types of questions followed by the
  correct answers.

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3. When do youuse QAR?
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When Do you Use QAR?

• In any situation where students interact with
  non-fiction as well as fiction text and.
• To help students understand that information from
  both text and knowledge based experiences is
  important to consider

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4. Why use QAR?
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Why Use QAR?

• QAR is a research based reading strategy that
  benefits every type, every level of learner!
• QAR helps students comprehend more of what they
  have read and learn that all the answers MAY NOT
  come from the text!
• QAR easily and authentically embeds itself into
  every content area!

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Questions?Comments?