My husband is doing an intensive study of questioning with his seventh graders--both in terms of how our questioning of the text drives us deeper towards understanding and simply of the questions themselves. We hope that children will benefit from thinking about question types (realizing, perhaps, when a question is literal or inferential). One the most telling and thought provoking activities came early on when he gave a mock test passage and series of questions. Kids worked in teams to rank the ten questions from most to least difficult. The conversations were very rich. Among other things, they began to realize that prior knowledge played a huge role in determining difficulty and that certain types of questions required not just skimming and scanning, but linking information from within the reading together. I don't know what impact it will have on scores, but it sure has kids thinking.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:07:05 -0700 > From: brenda...@sbcglobal.net > To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > Subject: [MOSAIC] comprehension > > After looking at the STAR test scores for our 4th graders, we realize they > were low in comprehension. What techniques or strategies do you all > recommend for raising the student's comprehension of daily reading and > application to testing? > Thanks, > Gordon > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
