1. Questioning How to make students better questioners, problem solvers, and higher level thinkers

2. How does a student being inquisitive help them become better questioners?

3. What are the different type of questions? Essential Questions Subsidiary Questions Hypothetical Questions Telling Questions Planning Questions Organizing Questions Probing Questions Sorting & Sifting Questions Clarification Questions Strategic Questions Elaborating Questions Unanswerable Questions Inventive Questions Provocative Questions Irrelevant Questions Divergent Questions Irreverent Questions A questioning toolkit http://www.fno.org/nov97/ toolkit.html http://www.fno.org/nov97/ toolkit.html

4. The 5 W’s and How Q Tasks wheel for questioning Who When WereWhy What How

5. EVENTSITUATIONCHOICEPERSONREASONMEANS PresentWhat is/are? Where/when is/are? Which is/are?Who is/are?Why is/are?How is/are? Past What did/do/does? Where/when did/do/does? Which did/do/does? Who did/do/does? Why did/do/does? How did/do/does? PossibilityWhat can? Where/when can? Which can?Who can?Why can?How can? Probability What would/could? Where/when would/could? Which would/could? Who would/could? Why would/could? How would/could? PredictionWhat will? Where/when will? Which will?Who will?Why will?How will? ImaginationWhat might? Where/when might? Which might?Who might?Why might?How might? http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/pqr/questionmatirx.htm

6. Teaching strategies for questioning using Q Tasks 20 Questions Jeopardy Trivial Pursuit Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?

7. How do you develop good questioning? Pictures

8. Work Cited http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/pqr/questionmatirx.htm A Questioning Toolkit http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.htmlhttp://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Q Tasks: How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers. Markham, Ontario 2006 Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Build Your Own Information Literate School. Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing 2004