Session 6 Questioning Strategies & Thinking Skills February 17, 2016

Professional Learning Outcomes Participants will learn how to ask deeper questions get students to ask deeper questions help students extend their thinking

Mango Street Poster The teacher wants the class to read “A Rice Sandwich”. She tells you to take your group of ELLs to a table and help them read it. How would you modify your expectations for the different language levels of your kids? Ideas: vocabulary, webbing, organizers, amount of oral language they should use Write your ideas on cards, add to your poster

Generate, Sort, Synthesize Sit by grade level Each person generate 3-4 ideas from this course you are using (1 idea per card) Read your ideas to your teammates, round robin Sort your cards into clusters – what are the big ideas Label the clusters and write a topic sentence (synthesize) Mount on poster paper

Leaf & Root Questions  “Leaf” questions are “above ground”, literal comprehension knowledge level Answer is in the text  “Root” questions are “buried”, higher order thinking questions Information leading to the answer is in the text, but not the exact answer

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Scale

Costa’s Three Story House Level 3: Apply information Evaluate, judge, generalize, predict, hypothesize, imagine, speculate, forecast Level 2: Process information Compare, contrast, sort, infer, analyze, classify, explain Level 1: Gather information Complete, identify, recite, define, list, select, describe, observe

Give One Get One Write 3 questions on 3 separate cards Use either of the taxonomies, DOK or Costa Variety of levels Mill around. Ask/answer your question with a partner. Trade cards. Why Popular Kids Don’t Stay Cool This is the Way I Talk

Give One Get One Students write three questions From a variety of levels, costa, DOK, etc On three cards or on a t-chart Student mill around asking each question get an answer Write down the partner’s question OR trade cards, write the answer on the card

What to say instead of “I don’t know”  Could I please have some more information?  Could you please repeat the question?  Could I speak with my partner?  Where can I find the answer?  Will you please rephrase that?  Can I have some more time to think?

Activities for Turning Up the Volume – Quiz Quiz Trade DescriptionTeaching Tips for ELL Students write questions related to the content on cards. Must know the answer. Level 1 students may write questions in L1. Students mill around the room to music. When the music stops, they form a pair and ask each other their question. Level 1 students partner with students who speak their own language. Level 2 may partner in L1 for their first pairing. If the answerer knows the answer, they say it. If not, the questioner explains the answer. Student trade cards. Music begins, students mill and find new partners.