The document discusses the importance of questioning in reading and comprehension, emphasizing that curiosity drives understanding and deeper engagement with texts. It differentiates between thin questions, which are simple and clarifying, and thick questions, which are complex and require discussion and research. Authentic questions, whether posed by students or teachers, stimulate critical thinking and often have multiple answers, fostering further inquiry.

1. QuestioningThe Strategy That Propels Readers Forward

2. Why is questioning important to readers?

3. “Curiosity spawns questions. Questions are the master key to understanding. Questions stimulate research efforts. Questions propel us forward and take us deeper into reading. Human beings are driven to find answers and make sense of the world.”-Stephanie Harvey & Anne GoudvisStrategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

4. Questioning helps:Monitor comprehension

5. Interact with the text to construct meaning

6. Focus our reading

7. Read with a purpose

8. Leads to inferential thinking

9. Expand our thinkingTypes of research questions:Thin questions vs.Thick QuestionsSmaller clarification questions Clarify confusion, understand words, or access objective contentQuestions can be answered with a number or with a simple yes or noLarge global questionsThe answers to these questions are often long and involvedRequire discussion and researchOften begin with:Why?How come?I wonder

10. Creating thin vs. thick questionsQuick non-fiction passage

11. Thinvs. Thick questions activitySticky note activity