Strategy 4: Questioning
Questioning involves the reader generating questions before, during and after reading. The first questions a reader may have will be based on the title, the front cover and perhaps the blurb of the story. As the reader progresses through the story more questions will be generated based on the information they read. At the end of a story, the reader may be left with more questions in his/her head.
WHY DO GOOD READERS QUESTION?
Generating questions helps pupils to clarify meaning, to think more deeply about what they read, to organise their thinking, to locate specific information and to move deeply into the text. Ultimately, using questioning as a strategy helps to focus a reader’s attention on a text.
Children make a ‘W’ sign for ‘I wonder why….’ Good readers ask themselves questions before, during and after reading. These questions can be generated by what they have read or seen in the book, or sometimes what is not shown or said in the text. Some questions can be left unanswered by the author and then good readers will use their own interpretation of the story to come up with their own answers.
Questioning involves the reader generating questions before, during and after reading. The first questions a reader may have will be based on the title, the front cover and perhaps the blurb of the story. As the reader progresses through the story more questions will be generated based on the information they read. At the end of a story, the reader may be left with more questions in his/her head.
WHY DO GOOD READERS QUESTION?
Generating questions helps pupils to clarify meaning, to think more deeply about what they read, to organise their thinking, to locate specific information and to move deeply into the text. Ultimately, using questioning as a strategy helps to focus a reader’s attention on a text.
Children make a ‘W’ sign for ‘I wonder why….’ Good readers ask themselves questions before, during and after reading. These questions can be generated by what they have read or seen in the book, or sometimes what is not shown or said in the text. Some questions can be left unanswered by the author and then good readers will use their own interpretation of the story to come up with their own answers.
