CREATING MEANINGFUL QUESTIONS HOT Questions Quick Write Here
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CREATING MEANINGFUL QUESTIONS HOT Questions
Quick Write Here are six questions. After reading them, spend 2 -3 minutes writing down what you notice about them—differences, similarities, topics, etc. 1. How does the “importance of the individual” theme in The Giver apply to our modern day world? 2. What is the first line of the U. S. Constitution? 3. In A Christmas Carol, how do the ghosts of Christmas past and Christmas present differ in their approaches to helping Scrooge? 4. What can a modern-day teen learn from reading a book about the Holocaust? 5. Which character in the sci-fi movie The Martian was stranded on Mars? 6. What do the book burnings in Fahrenheit 451 symbolize?
LEVEL 1 (Lower-Order Thinking: Comprehension) The reader can find the answer to a question within the text. The reader can “put his finger on the answer” in one spot. These are right and wrong answers. �Define �Describe �Identify �Complete �List �Name �Recite �Observe �Select
LEVEL 2 (Inferencing/Making Text Connections) The reader infers answers from what the text states, possibly in several places. �Sort �Distinguish �Compare �Contrast �Synthesize �Analyze �Group �Infer
LEVEL 3 (Higher-Order Thinking: Application) The reader thinks beyond what the text states, based on prior experiences or knowledge. There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer, but some answers are better than others! �Apply �Evaluate �Hypothesize �Imagine �Judge �If/Then �Predict �Speculate
Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) �Right-There Questions: These are literal questions whose answers can be found in the text. Often, the words used in the question are the same words found in the text. �Think-and-Search Questions: To address these kinds of questions, answers are gathered from several parts of the text and put together to make meaning. �Author and You: These questions are based on information provided in the text but the student is required to relate it to their own experience. Although the answer does not lie directly in the text, the student must have read it to answer the question. �On My Own: These questions do not require the student to have read the passage but they must use their background or prior knowledge to answer the question.
