Happy Saturday, everyone! I'm planning for next week's lessons on questioning and I have a question for the list. I DON'T want to get too involved in labeling questions (just like many of you said about labeling text-to-self/text/world connections), but I think that in order to get my kids past surface level questions, I need to come up with some kind of "tier of questions" and I want to go past "Thick and Thin" question labeling for my 5th graders. I REALLY would like some input and then I'll come up with a visual that I'll post on my web page. AGAIN, don't panic, I'm not going to go overboard with this, but simply want to point out the difference in one or two lessons so I can label an irrelevant question as such when one of my kiddoes fails to dig into the text.
Here's what I'm thinking: Tier 1: Irrelevant questions (Questions that have no relevance to the comprehension of the story) Tier 2: Clarifying questions (Questions that stem from monitoring your comprehension as you seek to clear up confusion--these DO affect comprehension and show active reading) Tier 3: Predicting questions (Questions that lead to inferences about what will happen in the story--obviously affecting comprehension) Tier 4: LIFE questions (Questions that lead to a synthesis of the story. These may or may not be answerable.) Are there other tiers that I'm not including in this so far? Are there any other terms for "Predicting" or "Life" questions? Any clarifications on what each type involves? Thanks in advance. Michelle TG/IA This message sent from the home of Scott and Michelle TG www.mrstg.com _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] 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.
