Summarizing Sticky Notes Dr. Buckwell Rereading Inferring Teacher Note: If you want to review, try this Partner Review Game we did at the staff development. Otherwise, skip to slide 3!

Visualizing Slowing Down Barack Obama Writing in the Margin Connecting Teacher Note: If you want to review, try this Partner Review Game we did at the staff development. Otherwise, skip to slide 3!

What Do You Wonder? Self-Questioning as a Reading Strategy

What Do You Wonder? About: The world? Your life? People? Write down three things you wonder and prepare to share one.

Why don’t we start with a game? “Questions Only” Game Volunteers? Click on the image for a video clip! Skip ahead to 0:45 seconds!

Can you question these news headlines? Serious: –Candlelight Tribute Planned at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. –Hickory Ridge Girls Advance –Rowan Sherriff Seeks Burglary Suspect Funny: –Local High School Dropouts Cut In Half –Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors –Iraqi Head Seeks Arms –Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge –Include your Children When Baking Cookies More found on reading wiki:

So what does this have to do with reading?

What is this author’s point? Children's writer Madeline L'Engle says, "Readers sometimes grossly underestimate their own importance." This is particularly true of less experienced readers. As developing readers realize their inner conversation and begin to focus on their own thoughts and questions, reading takes on new importance. When readers interact with the text by thinking about their questions, writing them down, and pondering answers, they comprehend at a much deeper level. Classrooms change when readers begin to believe their thinking matters. -Stephanie Harvey

How does self-questioning help me when I read? Asking questions: Helps you interact with text. Gives you a reason to keep reading. Helps you clarify missing details. Requires you to go beyond the text. May help you anticipate test questions. “Questioning is the strategy that propels readers on. Who, after all, would continue reading something if they had no questions about it?” –Stephanie Harvey

When do we ask questions? Before –Look at cover, titles, features “I wonder who she is?” “When does this take place?” “I wonder what’s going to happen.” During –“Who is talking here?” –“What does that word mean?” –“Why did ____ do that?” –Why did the author put that in there? After –“I wonder what really happened to___.” –“What else can I find out about ____?”

What reading TOOLS help with self-questioning? Previewing the Text to form questions before reading Rereading/Reading Ahead to find answers to clarifying questions Marking the Text to record/ remember questions Self-Monitoring

Does it matter what questions you ask? There ARE dumb questions: Questions you already know the answer to! Clarifying Ponderable (simple, helps understand) (complex answer or none) Answerable Not answerable In the text In my head Another source

Let’s Self-Question Teachers- Choose an article from the Reading Wiki: Students: Write each question you think of on a separate sticky note!

At your tables, sort your questions. Answerable Not answerable Clarifying Ponderable (simple, helps understand) (complex answer or none) In the text In my head Another source

More activities for later in the week Each one is hyperlinked to the reading wiki! 20 Questions! Lateral Thinking Puzzles More Newspaper headlines

Sources Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2007). Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement. Portland: Stenhouse. Tovani, C. (2000). I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers. Portland: Stenhouse. Scholastic Instructor: Questioning the Text sports.com/humor/jokes/jokes_newspaper_headlines.htm#Unu sual,_Strange_and_Funny_Newspaper_Headlines_