Reading Strategies Questioning

Sources (information consulted at and adapted from):

• Building Reading Comprehension through Questioning Techniques: https://www.readinghorizons.com/reading-strategies/teaching/comprehension/building-reading-comprehension-through-questioning-techniques

• ​Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers: https://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/energy-and-the-polar-environment/questioning-techniques-research-based-strategies-for-teachers

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• ​Strong readers practice active reading.

• ​They use strategies to make themselves think.

• ​They decode written words.

• ​Through active reading strategies it is more likely that a reader will understand a text.

• ​Connecting

• ​Visualizing

• ​QUESTIONING

• ​Inferring

• ​Determining Importance in Text

• ​Synthesizing

​Through questioning

readers engage with the text.

• they interact with the text to make meaning of it.

• ​they monitor their own comprehension of what they read.

​Asking questions as we read

is evidence that we have a purpose

in reading.

​Questioning facilitates

this personal connection.

• ​Questioning before reading:

Readers activate prior knowledge

and make predictions.

• ​Questioning during reading:

​It creates a dialogue in the reader's mind.

• ​Questioning after reading:

​It can stimulate critical analysis

and further research on the topic.

• ​Questioning can be used to help build the reader's vocabulary.

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• ​Skimming the text and placing question marks in the margins is a strategy that can yield information for a topic, and readers develop their own reading glossaries.

• ​Thin questions:

  • are answered with factual information

    • that can be found in the text

  • ​are answered with a few words or brief sentences

• ​Thick questions:

  • ​require inferential responses

    • ​that require the reader to think

    • ​and offer his opinions and ideas

​Questions classified according to Bloom's Taxonomy, which includes six categories:

• ​Knowledge

• ​Comprehension

• ​Application

• ​Analysis

• ​Synthesis

• ​Evaluation

​I hope you've enjoyed the lesson!