Effective readers use questioning as a strategy to stay engaged with text and deepen their understanding. They actively wonder about who, what, when, where, how, and why while reading. Questions can help readers learn new information, clarify confusion, and comprehend the text. Readers find answers to their questions right in the text, by searching the text, using their own background knowledge combined with what's in the text, or on their own. Asking thick questions about broad concepts and thin questions about details helps readers expand their thinking.

1. Questioning Notes

2. Importance to an Effective ReaderIt’s the strategy that keeps a reader interested in the book.Questions helps readers understand what their reading and pushes their thinking further.Effective, active readers wonder about all sorts of things as they are reading.Questions helps us learn new information, clarify confusion, and understand the text.They keep us learning!

3. Strategy #1-Questioning the TextI wonder….How does an effective reader use questions as they read to understand text?

4. Structure of QuestionsElkhart Community SchoolsMost of us think of these words when we think of questions:Who? (Person)

5. What? (Object/Activity)

6. When? (Time)

7. Where? (Place)

8. How? (Process)

9. Why? (Reason)How do I find the answers to my questions?Strategy #2-Finding Answers