READING STRATEGY: Question-Answer Relationship

Preparing for the arrival of Common Core Standards in Social Studies

Common Standards

• We are preparing our students to be college ready and literate.

• The Common Core Standards will not replace Social Studies Standards.

• We want our students to read, to write, to listen and to speak proficiently.

Common Core Standards:Goals in Social Studies• We want our students to

engage in – high quality literary – informational text– thoughtful discussion of text

• With the development of reading skills, our students will be improve content knowledge, reasoning skills and thoughtful citizens.

What is Social Studies Role?• Grades 9th through 12th Grades,

students will focus on 30% of literary text and 70% will be on informational text.

• According to Tim Shanahan, Informational text provides information about the social or natural world, and deals with classes of objects and experiences rather than individual instances.

What is Social Studies Role?

• Social Studies teachers needs to assist English teachers in covering informational text.

• The students will continue to be exposed to fiction, drama, and poetry in their English classes.

• Social Studies classes and English classes must collaborate in selection of reading material.

Role of Social Studies in Reading

• According to Fisher, Frey and Lapp, teachers can assist in reading by comprehension, word solving, text structures and text features.

• Social Studies teachers can help with visualizing, inferring, summarizing, predicting, questioning or monitoring.

Common Core and Reading

• Goal 1: students will be able to understand and clarify “unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases by using context clues.”

• Goal 2 : students will be able to analyze the text.

• Goal 3: students will be able to provide evidence to support their opinions.

1. Finding the answers in the text: “Right There” are answers that are found in one. sentence.

2. “Think and Search” are located in the text but the answer is one or more sentences.

Question-Answer Relationship (QAR)

Question-Answer Relationship (QAR)

3. “Author and You” are answers that can be found in the text but your background knowledge will assist you in the answer.

4. “On your Own” are answers based on prior knowledge and the text may be needed or not.

Question-Answer RelationshipTypes Of

Questions Description Stems for Questions

In The Text (Book Questions)

Right There

Words in the questions answer are directly stated in the text. It is explict, and the words or phrases can be found within one sentence.

• How many….?• Who is……?• Where is….?• What is….?

Think and Search

Information is in the text, but readersmust think and make connections between passages in the text.

• The main idea is…?• What caused…?

In My Head (Brain Questions)

Author and You

Readers need to think about what they already know, what the author tells them in the text, and how it fits together.

•The author implies…?•The passage suggests…?•The author's attitude is…?

On your own

Requires the reader to use prior knowledge to answer. The text may or may not be needed.

•In your own opinion…?•Based on your experience…?•What would you do if...?

After School Content Literacy

Project for California By D. Fisher and L.

Young

Examples of Queries: we want our students to create this questions on their own.

Examples of Queries

Initiating•What is the author trying to say here?•What is the author's message?•What is the author talking about?

Follow-up

•What does the author mean here?•Did the author explain this clearly?•Does this make sense with what the author told us before?•How does this connect with what the author has told us before?•Does the author tell us why?•Why do you think the author tells us this now?

Narrative

•How do thinks look for this character now?•How has the author let you know that something has changed?•How has the author settled this for us?•Given what the author has already told us about this character, what do you think he's up to?

Sources• Notice and Note by Kylene

Beers and Robert E. Probst• Text Complexity by Douglas

Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp.

• A Close Look at Close Reading by Beth Burke

• Questioning The Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement With Text by I.L. Beck, M.G. McKeown, R.L. Hamilton and L. Kugan

• Notice and Note by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

• Text Complexity by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp.

• A Close Look at Close Reading by Beth Burke

• Questioning The Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement With Text by I.L. Beck, M.G. McKeown, R.L. Hamilton and L. Kugan