This document discusses strategies for developing questioning skills in proficient readers. It explains that questioning leads readers to engage more deeply with a text by sparking dialogue with the author. Proficient readers spontaneously ask questions before, during, and after reading to clarify meaning, speculate about unread portions of text, determine an author's intent, and consider questions left for the reader's interpretation. The document provides examples of modeling questioning during read-alouds and using tools like QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) and thick/thin questions to teach students how generating their own questions can improve comprehension.

1. QuestioningStrategies That WorkBy Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

2. Sensational Strategies Predicting Connections Monitoring Questioning Inferring

3. Questions lead readers deeper into a piece, setting up a dialogue with the author, sparking in readers’ minds what it is they care about. If you ask questions as you read, you are awake. You are thinking. You are engaged.~ Susan Zimmerman

4. Proficient readers spontaneously and purposefully ask questions before, during, and after reading.

5. Readers ask questions to:Clarify meaningSpeculate about text yet to be readDetermine an author’s intent, style, content, or formLocate a specific answer in textConsider rhetorical questions inspired by the text

6. Proficient Readers…understand that many of the most intriguing questions can not be answered in the text, but are left to the reader’s interpretationdetermine whether the answers to their questions can be found in the text or whether they will need to infer the answer using their background knowledge, and/or an outside source

7. Proficient Readers…use questions to focus their attention on ideas, events, or other text elements they want to rememberare aware that as they hear others’ questions, new ones – called generative questions – are inspired in their own mindsunderstand and can describe how asking questions deepens their comprehension

8. Where to begin?Model, model, model during Read AloudStrategies That Work, Chapter 8 – full of lessons for teaching questioningQARThick and Thin Questions Anchor ChartsThe Q Food

9. The Q FoodQuinoa – pronounced “keen-wa.”Quinoa is a grain from the Andes Mountains, first used by the Inca civilization. For more information, visit www.quinoa.net

10. The Q Food

11. QAR Question Answer RelationshipsIN THE TEXTRight There – literal question, answer can be found in text

12. Think and Search – how the information or ideas in the text relate to one another, must summarize, compare, contrast, explainQAR Question Answer RelationshipsIN MY HEADAuthor and You – answer not in the text, but you must have read the text to answer the question

13. On My Own – questions can be answered with information from the student’s background and does not require reading the text

14. Thick and Thin Questions

15. Each day after I read a chapter aloud from a class novel, I invite my students to write a thick question on an index card and add it to the card holder on our "Thick Questions" bulletin board. I pick one thick question to ask the class before I begin reading from the novel the following day and lead a brief class discussion.

16. Who owns the questions in our classrooms?The answer is simple:The learner must.