Good Readers Ask Questions

I have collected some Questions that Good Readers Ask.  I have modified and changed them as I have gone along.   Here are 9 questions that all readers should think about.

1- What is the main idea of the text?

2- How can I summarize what I have read?

3- What questions should I ask before, during, and after reading?

4- How can I use what I learn in a new way?

5- Can I support my side of an argument?  If not, maybe I should reread or read some more.

6- What signal words can I use to help me determine text structure?

7- What vocabulary words would help me learn this lesson?

8- How can I analyze or break apart information that I am reading?

9-What is my purpose for reading?

7 Things to Remember about Feedback

I found the following information in Educational Leadership magazine, Sept 2012; http://www.asch.org/el

1-Feedback is not advice, praise or evaluation.  Feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal. Grant Wiggins, p.10

2-If students know the classroom is a safe place to make mistakes; they are more likely to use feedback for learning. Dylan William, p.30

3- The feedback students give teachers can be more powerful that the feedback teachers give students. Cris Tovani, p. 28

4- When we give a grade as part of our feedback, students routinely read only as far as the grade.  Peter Johnston, p 64

5-Effective feedback occurs during the learning, while there is time to act on it.  Jan Cappuis, p.36

6- Most of the feedback that students receive about their classroom work is from other students-and much of that feedback is wrong. John Hattie, p. 18

7-Students need to know their learning target- the specific skill they’re supposed to learn- or else “feedback” is just someone telling them what to do.  Susan Brookhart, p.24

Text Dependent Questions

As we move toward Common Core, we need to be asking more text dependent questions.  I have included a couple of handouts for you to use.

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Text-Dependent-Question-Prompts-PDF

(Source, in part: Connecting
Reading & Writing Through
Authors Craft,
The Reading Teacher, Rickards &
Hawes, Dec, 2006)