Questioning the Author: An Approach for Enhancing Student Engagement with Text
- ISBN-10
- 0872072428
- ISBN-13
- 9780872072428
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- International Reading Association
- Author
- Isabel L. Beck
Description
Noting that elementary-school students often fail to understand many of the ideas presented in school textbooks, this book presents the Questioning the Author (QtA) strategy, which is designed to establish student interactions with text and build greater understanding by teaching students to question the ideas presented in the text while they are reading. The book presents many examples of QtA in action as children engage with narrative and expository texts to construct meaning. After a foreword and an introduction, chapters in the book are: (1) "What Is Questioning the Author and How Was It Developed?"; (2) "Queries"; (3) "Planning"; (4) "Discussion"; (5) "Implementation"; and (6) "Where Has Questioning the Author Been and Where Is It Going?" Contains 66 references. (RS)
Get the book
Similar books
-
Robust Comprehension Instruction with Questioning the Author
By Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Cheryl A. SandoraThe book features extended examples of teachers implementing QtA, as well as four complete texts that can be downloaded and printed for classroom use.
-
Robust Comprehension Instruction with Questioning the Author: 15 Years Smarter
By Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Cheryl A. SandoraAs examples of participation patterns, McIntyre points to the preference for group work and discussion in African American culture and overlapping speech in native Hawaiian culture. An issue is that teachers may see these as departing ...
-
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
By Claire A. NivolaWangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish...
-
Get to the Point!: Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter
By Joel SchwartzbergWhether you want to improve your impact in speeches, staff meetings, pitches, emails, PowerPoint presentations, or any other communication setting, this book provides a novel approach that teaches you how to go from simply sharing a thought ...
-
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
By Warren BergerTo get the best answer-in business, in life-you have to ask the best possible question. Innovation expert Warren Berger shows that ability is both an art and a science.
-
Teaching Comprehension with Questioning Strategies that Motivate Middle School Readers
By Larry LewinMiddle-school literacy expert Larry Lewin shares 12 questioning strategies that boost students' critical thinking and comprehension during and after reading. Easy to integrate into reading assignments in any content-area, these...
-
Improving Comprehension with Questioning the Author: A Fresh and Expanded View of a Powerful Approach
By Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeownPresents a guide to a research-based approach to reading comprehension to use with any kind of text, providing information on selecting texts, developing lessons, and guiding discussions.
-
Questioning Evangelism, Second Edition: Engaging People's Hearts the Way Jesus Did
By Randy NewmanTimothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (New York: Dutton, 2008), 113–14. Non-Christian: Christian: Non-Christian: Christian: Non-Christian: Christian: Non-Christian: Christian: Non-Christian: Christian: 132 ...
-
Quality Questioning: Research-Based Practice to Engage Every Learner
By Jackie Acree Walsh, Beth Dankert SattesQuality Questioning includes: A complete framework for preparing and presenting questions, prompting and processing student responses, teaching students to generate questions, and reflecting on questioning practice Checklists for classroom ...
-
Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction
By John D. H. Downing, John Downing, Ali Mohammadi'Clearly written, with careful signposting of relevant debates, this reader in the critical tradition is a model of an introductory cultural and media studies text... the writing is accessible, the concepts and arguments are sophisticated, ...