1. Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)
In the Book
In My Head
Right There
Author & Me
Answer directly in text
Reader figures out meaning from text
In QAR strategy instruction, students are taught four distinct categories that demonstrate the relationships between questions and answers:
Right There questions require answers that are stated directly in the text.
Think and Search questions require the student to combine text information from two or more sentences. All the necessary information is contained in the text, but students must locate each piece and assemble the pieces to create the answer.
Author and Me questions require the student to use information from the text and combine it with his or her background knowledge. In other words, Author and Me questions require inferential reasoning.
On My Own questions require answers that are based solely on the student’s background knowledge. The answers are not found in the text.
The first two categories are questions that require literal answers that are found directly in the text and are generally lower-level questions in terms of Blooms Taxonomy. The last two categories require students to use their background knowledge when answering the question and are generally high level questions regarding Blooms.
Students should be provided with opportunities for classifying questions according to the four categories. Recognizing the question type is an essential first step toward deciding on an appropriate answer. This will help students begin to perceive that a variety of strategies are needed to answer questions. In addition, students are prompted to tap into their own knowledge base as they read content texts.
Note to Trainer: The information in the note pages is adapted from Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning by Doug Buehl, pages
Think & Search
On My Own
Put it together from the text
Wouldn’t have to read text