1. EDUCATOR INDUCTION PROGRAM A FOCUS ON LITERACY December 13, 2011 I CAN lead my students to achieve comprehension by teaching them to engage in high levels of questioning.

2. What do I do if the answer isn’t right there in book??

3. QUESTION ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS In the BookIn My Head Right There Think and Search Author and Me On My Own

4. GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS

5. QUESTION ANSWER RELATIONSHIPS In the BookIn My Head Right There Think and Search Author and Me On My Own

6. HOW DO WE KNOW ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS? In my head…

7. I CAN generate and respond to questions based on nonfiction and fiction texts.

8. KEY WORDS FOR QAR Right ThereThink and Search Author and You On My Own Who? What? Where? When? Define… Identify… List… Name… Summarize Find Evidence Compare and Contrast Tell Why Cause and Effect In what ways… Solve this… What is necessary? Form a hypothesis Give your opinion Take a guess How would you feel if…?

9. EXTREME SPORTS Can you imagine rocketing down a city street at sixty miles per hour, the speed of a car on the freeway, lying on an overgrown skateboard just inches away from the concrete? How about climbing straight up a frozen waterfall? Or doing a flip on your bike? Or jumping out of an airplane with a snowboard attached to your feet? Street lugers, ice climbers, BMX freestyle riders, and sky surfers are part of the growing world of extreme sports.

10. Just like other athletes, they devote a lot of time to practicing and competing in their sports. Many of these sports have been created only in the past twenty- five years. Some sports, like street luging, are all about speed and seeing who can go the fastest. Other sports, like BMX freestyle riding and sky surfing, are about style, or who can do the fanciest stunts. Ice climbing competitors must have both style to win.

11. ONE CAUTION Teachers should be alert to the difference between showing students what to do and telling them what to do. Research by Barbara Taylor and her colleagues (Taylor, Peterson, Pearson, & Rodriguez, 2002) underscores the important difference between demonstrating and telling. Modeling and coaching encourage higher levels of thinking, while telling and recitation reinforce lower levels of thinking. ~QAR Now: Question Answer Relationships, 2006

12. Now it’s your turn… 1.With your tables, determine how you will read our practice passage. 2.Together, generate at least one question for each of the four QAR types. 3.Ready yourselves to present out your work.

13. Tom has lived in Marysville his entire life. However, tomorrow, Tom and his family would be moving 200 miles away to Grand Rapids. Tom hated the idea of having to move. He would be leaving behind his best friend, Ron, the baseball team he had played on for the last two years, and the big swing in his backyard where he liked to sit and think. And to make matters worse, he was moving on his birthday! Tom would be thirteen tomorrow. He was going to be a teenager! He wanted to spend the day with his friends, not watching his house being packed up and put on a truck. He thought that moving was a horrible way to spend his birthday. What about a party? What about spending the day with his friends? What about what he wanted? That was just the problem. No one ever asked Tom what he wanted.

14. I CAN generate and respond to questions based on nonfiction and fiction texts.

15. FOR BOOK STUDY  Check out your text thru our C & I Office.  Engage in your reading with text marking.  Prepare one of each of the QAR questions for your text.

16. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Choice Words 1:  Jodi Heitbrink  Barb Bucy  Kelly Campbell  Dorothy Fernandes  Amy Dufelmeier  Holly Saxer

17. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Choice Words 2:  Jessica Padilla  Bethany Hungerford  Diana Phillips  Ashley Lewis  Mandy Teegardin  Nikki Robertson

18. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Fires In The Bathroom 1:  Tim Orisek  Casey Spradlin  Phil Wagener  Sandy Hartsook  Callie Sturgeon

19. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Fires In The Bathroom 2:  David DeMuro  Kenny Dufelmeier  Steven Lund  Michele Rush  Cleta TerHark

20. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Whatever It Takes:  Theresa Fanale  Matt Johnson  Judene Stock

21. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Teaching With Poverty In Mind:  Mallory Bendorf  Danielle Harn  Mary Parks  Latoya Bradley  Shannon Folker

22. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Teaching With Poverty In Mind:  Jodi Brown  Jessica Tate  Alaina Rueter  Steve Thorne

23. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Fires In the Middle School Bathroom:  Jenna Stowers  Rachel Antle  Dawn Murphy

24. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE BOOK CLUB GROUPS FOR JANUARY  Failure Is Not An Option:  Morgan Koss  Kathleen Beard  Leslie Terwische

25. EXIT TICKET What is QAR?

26. EXIT TICKET To what extent might QAR help your students in their comprehension? Why?

27. EXIT TICKET How might you use QAR in your own practice?