QuestionAnswer Relationships By Janet Stos QuestionAnswer Relationships What

Question-Answer Relationships By Janet Stos

Question-Answer Relationships What is it? By Janet Stos

QAR (Raphael, 1982, 1986) is a strategy that is “designed to demystify the questioning process, providing the teachers and students with a common vocabulary to discuss different types of questions and sources of information for answering these questions…” ---Mc. REL

Question-Answer-Relationship Four categories of questions are studied during strategy use and practice.

TWO are text-based QARs “RIGHT THERE” questions ask students to respond at the literal level; the words used to answer the questions can be found “right there” in the same sentence of the text.

• Right There questions may begin with words such as: • • • Who is… Where is… List… How many… What is… When is…

THINK AND SEARCH These questions require students to “think” about how the information or ideas in the text relate to one another, and to “search” through the entire passage to find the information that applies.

Think and Search questions may begin with words like: Summarize… What caused… Compare… Explain… Retell… Contrast… Find two examples…

TWO are knowledge-based QARs • Students must use their prior knowledge to answer “Author and You/Me” questions. • Their answer will include information that is beyond what is found in the text. They must read the text to understand what the question is asking.

Author and You/Me questions may begin with statements like: What motive is there… Is it valid that… What beliefs justify… In your opinion what inconsistencies… Judge the effects of….

• Example: Author and You/Me • The topic of the reading was cloning. In what instances, if ever, do you think cloning should be used?

ON MY OWN (2 nd knowledge based question) • These questions can be answered with information from the students’ background knowledge and DO NOT require reading from the text.

ON MY OWN Create a children’s story where the discovery of a strange new creature leads the characters on an amazing adventure.

Let’s Compare: Bloom’s Taxonomy QAR Knowledge Right There questions Comprehension Think and Search Application Think and Search Analysis Author and You/Me Synthesis On My Own Evaluation On My Own

1. What is QAR?

What is QAR? • A reading strategy that gives teachers and students a common vocabulary for discussing text. • A reading strategy that includes IN THE BOOK and IN MY HEAD levels of questions. • A reading strategy that teaches four types of questions and their relationships to the answers. • Right There, Think and Search, Author and You, On My Own. • A reading strategy that can be easily implemented across the curriculum!

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