Well, I've been wondering what all that QAR stuff was about - thanks for teaching it - I'm thinking I should hop on the band wagon and use it in my room too...
Well done Robin. I like the critical thinking aspect of the lesson. It is important to cover prior knowledge in the early grades because it is a difficult concept. I still have 8th graders that struggle with it. Once again, the use of a graphic organizer was nice. Students can see it, think it, and do it.
Like Don said earlier in class, I like how QAR makes students create different types of questions after reading a text. Knowledge and understanding is not always found in the "Right There". Better Questions = Better Thinkers
QAR provides a tool for us and our students to consider a lot of practical concerns that bear directly on our performance on OAT etc. The issue of making a claim, the issue of providing textual evidence, the use of transitions...Thanks Robin for sharing.
Robin, Thank you for planning my first week of school! This QAR strategy fits right in to teaching the genre of answering questions~ a skill I firmly believe our students need! I can't wait to get into the classroom with this
Way to go Robin! You're teaching students to develop "good" questions from a variety of perspectives. This should help them in their reading. Questioning before, during, and after is the key to reading comprehension.
How important it is for our students to use their knowledge of passages to ask/answer good questions. I will definitely use these ideas for my kids this fall. Thanks, Robin for the excellent lesson today. We need more of this critical thinking in every subject area.
Like Carol, I want to go out and buy magnet tape as quickly as possible...and that wasn't even the best part of the demo, so it had to be good. I like how the lesson distinguishes among places to find answers and yet is flexible enough to accommodate different ways of thinking. Robin assumes there are many ways to learn and many ways are valued.
Dotto to all said by the previous responders, Robin, plus one more thing. I think you paced the lesson extremely well, too. You have such a reassuring demeanor and make the material seem so accessible that I imagine students are engaged immediately.
Well, I've been wondering what all that QAR stuff was about - thanks for teaching it - I'm thinking I should hop on the band wagon and use it in my room too...
ReplyDeleteWell done Robin. I like the critical thinking aspect of the lesson. It is important to cover prior knowledge in the early grades because it is a difficult concept. I still have 8th graders that struggle with it. Once again, the use of a graphic organizer was nice. Students can see it, think it, and do it.
ReplyDeleteLike Don said earlier in class, I like how QAR makes students create different types of questions after reading a text. Knowledge and understanding is not always found in the "Right There". Better Questions = Better Thinkers
ReplyDeleteQAR provides a tool for us and our students to consider a lot of practical concerns that bear directly on our performance on OAT etc. The issue of making a claim, the issue of providing textual evidence, the use of transitions...Thanks Robin for sharing.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for planning my first week of school! This QAR strategy fits right in to teaching the genre of answering questions~ a skill I firmly believe our students need!
I can't wait to get into the classroom with this
Way to go Robin!
ReplyDeleteYou're teaching students to develop "good" questions from a variety of perspectives. This should help them in their reading. Questioning before, during, and after is the key to reading comprehension.
How important it is for our students to use their knowledge of passages to ask/answer good questions. I will definitely use these ideas for my kids this fall. Thanks, Robin for the excellent lesson today. We need more of this critical thinking in every subject area.
ReplyDeleteLike Carol, I want to go out and buy magnet tape as quickly as possible...and that wasn't even the best part of the demo, so it had to be good. I like how the lesson distinguishes among places to find answers and yet is flexible enough to accommodate different ways of thinking. Robin assumes there are many ways to learn and many ways are valued.
ReplyDeleteNice job, Robin. When a discussion free flows from a lesson, I'd say you hit a nerve. We all benefited from that interplay of questioning questions.
ReplyDeleteMay our students (as well as ourselves) be able to ask good questions.
Dotto to all said by the previous responders, Robin, plus one more thing. I think you paced the lesson extremely well, too. You have such a reassuring demeanor and make the material seem so accessible that I imagine students are engaged immediately.
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