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Summarizing
Sticky Notes
Dr. Buckwell
Rereading
Inferring
Visualizing
Slowing Down
Barack Obama
Writing in the Margin
Connecting
What Do You
Wonder?
What Do You
Wonder?Self-Questioning as a Reading Strategy
What are the goals of this session?
What are the goals of this session?
• Understand how self-questioning can improve reading comprehension
• Identify ways to teach, model, and practice self-questioning in 4th period.
• Identify ways to incorporate self-questioning into subject area classes.
What do experts say?What do experts say?
Children's writer Madeline L'Engle says, "Readers sometimes grossly underestimate their own importance." This is particularly true of less experienced readers. As developing readers realize their inner conversation and begin to focus on their own thoughts and questions, reading takes on new importance. When readers interact with the text by thinking about their questions, writing them down, and pondering answers, they comprehend at a much deeper level. Classrooms change when readers begin to believe their thinking matters.
-Stephanie Harvey
How does self-questioning improve comprehension?How does self-questioning improve comprehension?Asking questions:• Helps readers interact with text.• Sets a purpose for reading.• Helps readers clarify missing details.• Requires readers to go beyond the text.• May help students anticipate test
questions. “Questioning is the strategy that propels
readers on. Who, after all, would continue reading something if they had no questions about it?”
–Stephanie Harvey
When do we ask questions?When do we ask questions?• Before
– Look at cover, titles, features“I wonder who she is?”“When does this take place?”“I wonder what’s going to happen.”
• During– “Who is talking here?”– “What does that word mean?”– “Why did ____ do that?”– Why did the author put that in there?
• After– “I wonder what really happened to___.”– “What else can I find out about ____?”
What reading TOOLS help with self-questioning?What reading TOOLS help with self-questioning?• Previewing the Text to form questions
before reading
• Rereading/Reading Ahead to find answers to clarifying questions
• Marking the Text to record/remember questions
• Self-Questioning Self-Monitoring
Does it matter what questions you ask?Does it matter what questions you ask?• There ARE dumb questions: Questions
you already know the answer to!
• Clarifying Ponderable (simple, helps understand) (complex answer or none)
• Answerable Not answerable
In the text
In my head
Another source
Let’s Self-
Question
Let’s Self-
QuestionArticle found at:http://abcnews.go.com/Business/SmallBiz/story?id=6873834&page=1
At your tables, sort your questions.At your tables, sort your questions.
• Answerable Not answerable
• Clarifying Ponderable (simple, helps understand) (complex answer or none)
In the text
In my head
Another source
How can I start teaching self-questioning?How can I start teaching self-questioning?• Model your own questions.• Ask students what they wonder.• Encourage them to ask questions.
• “Questions Only” Game
• Start with News Headlines or Book/Article Titles
Click on the image for a video clip! Skip ahead to 0:45 seconds!
News HeadlinesNews Headlines
• Serious:– Candlelight Tribute Planned at Dale Earnhardt, Inc.– Hickory Ridge Girls Advance– Rowan Sherriff Seeks Burglary Suspect
• Funny:– Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half – Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors– Iraqi Head Seeks Arms– Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge– Include your Children When Baking Cookies
What activities help students ask questions while reading in 4th period?
What activities help students ask questions while reading in 4th period?• Model for students how you ask
questions while reading.• Read something together and record all
student questions while reading.• Sort /Label questions (index cards, sticky notes,
chart paper)
• Discuss questions• Independent Reading:
– Sticky notes– Margin writing– Question chart (don’t overuse!)
What activities help students ask questions while reading in my subject area?
What activities help students ask questions while reading in my subject area?
• Everything from 4th period!
• K-W-L (K-W-L-H)
• Double Entry JournalsI Learned I Wonder
Leopard seals eat penguins. Do they eat the feet?
SourcesSources
• Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2007). Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement. Portland: Stenhouse.
• Tovani, C. (2000). I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers. Portland: Stenhouse.
• Scholastic Instructor: Questioning the Text http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4111
• www.independenttribune.com• http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/jokes/
jokes_newspaper_headlines.htm#Unusual,_Strange_and_Funny_Newspaper_Headlines_