Questioning is a critical reading strategy that helps readers make meaning and think critically about what they are reading. There are several questioning strategies that can be used before, during, and after reading. Some strategies used before reading include KWL charts, scaffolded reading experiences, and directed reading activities to activate prior knowledge. During reading, questioning helps readers clarify, make predictions, evaluate critically, and monitor comprehension. Strategies like questioning the author, thinking aloud, and discussion webs can be used. After reading, questioning helps readers understand events and themes by using journals, teacher questions, and questioning the author.

1. Questioning Using better questioning strategies to improve reading.

2. Why Should I Care? Questioning is a critical strategy that helps readers make meaning of literature by promoting critical thinking about what is being read.

3. Questioning Before Reading Before students read, they often use questions to activate prior knowledge, make predictions, and wonder about big ideas that are not answered in the text.

4. What are some Questioning Strategies Used Before Reading? KWL (Know Want Learn) Students organize their information about a topic using a three-column chart. Scaffolded Reading Experience (SRE) uses teachers' questions as the basis for the pre-reading engagement of students with text.

5. Reciprocal Reading Students working in small groups of four are each assigned a role before they read: Directed Reading Activity (DRA) This process uses teachers' questions to activate prior knowledge, create interest, and establish the purpose for reading.

6. Questioning During Reading During reading, students form questions to compare and generalize, identify the theme, and clarify meaning.

7. Why Use Questioning Strategies During Reading? Questioning during reading should help the reader to: Clarify and review what has happened so far Confirm or create new predictions Evaluate the text critically and make personal connections Compare with other experiences or readings Monitor reading for meaning and accuracy

8. Strategies For Questioning During Reading Questioning the Author Learning Logs Double Entry Journal Think-Aloud Discussion Webs Think-Pair-Share

9. Questioning After Reading After they read, students use questioning to locate information, understand and remember events and characters, and identify the theme.

10. Questioning Strategies After Reading Journal Writing Teacher Questions ORQ - Observe, Ruminate, Question Questioning the Author http://main.edc.org/legal#copyrighttext (2008). Literacy Matters. Retrieved November 8, 2008, from Reading: Questioning Web site: http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/question.htm