Formulate and respond to questions from teachers and group members. 0501.2.4

Links verified on 9/1/2014

1. Asking people - develop pupils' skills in gaining information from people, e.g. who to choose, interview skills and questionnaire design.
2. Asking Questions - the types of questions depend on the answer to that first important question: Why am I reading this? Once you establish a purpose for yourself, you can then ask which questions will help you achieve that goal. This page asks students to rank a set of questions on a scale of one to five. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Asking Questions to Improve Learning - tips directed toward the role of the teacher in asking questions; includes strategies for asking as well as strategies for responding to questions [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
4. Asking Questions: When, How, Why - Good readers ask questions while they read, but also before and after they read. This page includes a list of questions to be evaluated to their quality.
5. Comprehension Strategies: Questioning - index of links to sites or documents related to questioning
6. Critical Reasoning Warm-ups - These are warm-ups for people who are somewhat familiar with critical reasoning questions. These questions are a good way to start your brain thinking before you answer the real questions.
7. Graphic Organizers to Support Active Reading Strategy Instruction - [For grades 2-5] this 57 page document is full of graphic organizers to help your students ask questions
8. How to Ask a Question Intelligently - seven tips for asking more open-minded and informed questions
9. Koko's Kitten - Lesson plan - read a story and formulate a list of related questions to be answered through Internet research
10. Questioning Toolkit - seventeen types of questions from the educational journal, FNO
11. Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading - how to compose question webs by thinking aloud while reading. Students observe how to gather information about the topic and add it to question webs in the form of answers or additional questions
12. Questioning the Text - quick tips, creative ideas, and fun activities to tap into students' energy
13. Questioning Web - graphic organizer to print for your students to use in planning questions to ask
14. Reading Strategies: Asking Questions - lesson plan that includes two stories to read and a graphic organizer for recording questions and answers
15. Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension - two of the seven strategies are about questioning
16. Strategy Toolbox - several strategies relating to questioning

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