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Title: Metacogitive Reading Strategies: Part 4 Questioning! Good Readers Use Curiosity to Help Understand the Text


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Metacogitive Reading Strategies Part
4Questioning!Good Readers Use Curiosity to Help
Understand the Text
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Lets Review!
  • Whats metacognition?
  • Thinking about your thinking
  • Talking with the text in your head!
  • Activating Schema
  • What is schema?
  • Prior knowledge
  • What are the ways we can connect what we read to
    our schema?
  • Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world

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Lets Review!
  • Visualization
  • Whats visualization?
  • Crafting sensory and emotional images (sight,
    sound, taste, smell, touch, emotion)
  • Live the text!
  • Show, dont tell!
  • Making inferences
  • Whats an inference?
  • Reading between the lines
  • What are the two necessary elements to craft an
    inference?
  • Our schema and the text!

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And Now Presenting Our Newest Strategy
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Questioning!
  • Good readers ask themselves questions
  • Before reading
  • Wondering about what they will read
  • During reading
  • Questioning what they are reading
  • After reading
  • Continued thoughts about what they read
  • Questioning can help achieve a variety of
    purposes.
  • Not all questions are created equal!

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Thick v. Thin Questions
  • Questions can be categorized as thick or
    thin.
  • Good readers use a balanced diet of both types as
    they read.
  • That way, theyve thought about the text in a
    variety of ways!
  • Each question type helps to achieve a different
    purpose.

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Thin Questions
  • These questions help fix an incomplete or
    incorrect understanding of a text.
  • These are questions that are fact-based.
  • This suggests that they can be answered by
    looking up a quick fact/answer.
  • They are thin because they are minimally
    complex. They are hunt and find types of
    answers.

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Thin Questions
  • These include questions such as
  • Questions answered simply and directly in the
    text
  • Questions answered by very quick research or
    asking the teacher for more information
  • Extra factual information
  • Definitions
  • Confusions about the literal meaning of the text
    (What does this mean?)
  • All of these questions can be answered by a quick
    search for facts or a fact-based explanation.

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Thin Questions
  • Although these are sometimes minimally complex,
    they are still TURBO important!
  • How do these questions help our comprehension?
  • They help us remember and clarify the FACTS!
    Those are important in history, math, and
    science!
  • It teaches us more about the topic by allowing us
    to learn related information thats outside of
    the text.
  • It helps us understand the words we read so we
    can understand the ideas!
  • It helps us to be metacognitive and fix gaps in
    understanding when we encounter them (because we
    ask!).

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Thick Questions
  • Theyre chub-sters because theres a lot to them!
  • These are questions that are more complex, so
    they cant be answered directly in the text or by
    looking up a simple fact.
  • These include questions such as
  • Questions that foster inference
  • Questions whose answers are more complex than a
    simple fact
  • Questions that foster connections
  • Questions that foster analysis
  • Questions that foster discussion/debate

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Thick Questions
  • How do these questions help our comprehension?
  • They expand our thinking BEYOND the text!
  • They allow us to understand the reading in more
    complex, advanced ways.
  • They help us see the big picture! We see how it
    all fits together!
  • They help us REMEMBER the information because
    were thinking of connections and not solitary
    facts.

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Lets Practice!What do I say when I question?
I wonder Who? What? Where? When? Why?
How?... Could it? Would it...? Should
it? Did it? Can it? Etc., etc., etc.
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Lets Practice!
  • Label each question as thick or thin. Some
    questions may be rationalized as either, but be
    sure you can justify your choice.
  • _______ What does alienated mean?
  • _______ What causes certain people to become
    dictators and not others?
  • _______ What did Stalin specifically do to people
    that
  • gave him such an evil reputation?
  • _______ Why didnt the U.S. intervene in WWII
    sooner?
  • _______ How does Stalin compare to Hitler?
  • _______ Was Hitler so evil because he was simply
    insecure?

Thin
Thick
Thin
Thin or Thick
Thick
Thick
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Why Does it Matter?
  • Questioning helps students
  • Clarify the meaning of the text.
  • Both in terms of language and facts
  • Think beyond the text.
  • Wonder about relevant outside information
  • Understand the big picture.
  • See relationships between ideas, understand
    context, etc.
  • Monitor our comprehension and think
    metacognitively!
  • Curiosity Wonderful
  • Helps us monitor for and fix gaps in
    understanding.
  • Become ROCK STAR READERS! Woop woop!
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The End!(or is it?)
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