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Beck et al. (1997) identify specific steps you should follow when using the QtA strategy.
STEP 1:
Select an interesting passage that will spark conversation.
STEP 2:
Determine appropriate pausing points to help students obtain deeper understanding.
STEP 3:
Create queries (open-ended questions designed to encourage critical thinking) for each pausing point.
STEP 4:
Model this strategy.
STEP 5:
Ask students to practice this strategy by reading the passage you have selected and work through the queries you have created.
Potential Disadvantages of QtA
what really knocks me out
is a book
Beck et al. (1997) present characteristics of query-driven discussions (as compared to question-driven discussions).
STUDENT RESPONSES
TEXT USAGE
DISCUSSION DYNAMICS
that, when you're all done
Teachers use modeling to help students learn what is expected of them in a specific environment.
As the teacher, you must demonstrate how a response should be given and how thoughtful thinking sounds.
Modeling should be used to introduce QtA and when it becomes obvious many students are confused or not able to elaborate on the queries provided.
reading it
you wish the author that wrote it was
As discussion facilitator, it can be difficult to
a terrific friend of yours
and you could call him up
whenever you felt like it
J.D. Salinger
QtA or Questioning the Author is a comprehension strategy that engages students actively with a text.
Rather reading texts simply to obtain information, the QtA strategy encourages students to ask questions of the author and the text to build understanding.
Emerging from the constructivist approach to learning, the principle of actively building understanding is fundamental to the QtA strategy.
Below is an edited transcript from Reading Rockets' interview with Mo Willems.
When I design a character, it's very important to me that a four-year-old can reasonably draw that character, because I think that the book is only part of the experience. Reading is only part of the experience. I want those characters to become so alive that kids create their own comics and their own books, using my characters - in the same way that I started out drawing Charlie Brown and then developed my own characters. I'm designing this character to be as simple as possible, so that a four-year-old can draw it and at the same time, putting him or her in these crazy positions.
What is the author trying to say?