Questioning comprehension

Questioning comprehension

• Why is this text important for me?

• What are the ideas that I need to understand about this text?

• What is the main idea?

• What are the supportive ideas?

• What key elements I understood?

• What key elements I didn’t understand? 

• What is the purpose of this text?

• Can I relate the information easily?

• What concepts do I need to clarify?

• What have I learnt from the text?

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Questioning comprehension

Sources (information consulted at and adapted from):

• Building Reading Comprehension through Questioning Techniques: https://www.readinghorizons.com/reading-strategies/teaching/comprehension/building-reading-comprehension-through-questioning-techniques

• ​Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers: https://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/energy-and-the-polar-environment/questioning-techniques-research-based-strategies-for-teachers

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• ​Strong readers practice active reading.

• ​They use strategies to make themselves think.

• ​They decode written words.

• ​Through active reading strategies it is more likely that a reader will understand a text.

​Six strategies commonly associated

with active reading

• ​Connecting

• ​Visualizing

• ​QUESTIONING

• ​Inferring

• ​Determining Importance in Text

• ​Synthesizing

​Questioning Strategies for Reading

​Through questioning

readers engage with the text.

Multiple Choice

Questioning helps the reader to clarify and comprehend what he is reading.

• True.

• False.

Poll

Do you tend to ask questions of yourself or the text as you read?

• I do.

• I don't.

• Sometimes.

• It depends.

Multiple Choice

[...] questions while reading helps readers to build interest with the text and become stronger readers.

• Making

• Doing

• Asking

• Reading

Fill in the Blanks

Good [...] ask questions as they read. (type your answer)

• they interact with the text to make meaning of it.

• ​they monitor their own comprehension of what they read.

​When readers ask questions as they read...

​Asking questions as we read

is evidence that we have a purpose

in reading.

Fill in the Blanks

Reading with a purpose increases reading [...]. (type your answer)

Multiple Choice

Why does reading with a purpose increase reading comprehension?

• Just because.

• Because the reader reads in a passive way.

• Because the reader does not have to process the information he/she finds in the text.

• Because the reader makes a personal connection with the text.

​Questioning facilitates

this personal connection.

Multiple Select

When should effective questioning be practiced? Select all the correct options.

• Before reading.

• During reading.

• After reading.

• ​Questioning before reading:

Readers activate prior knowledge

and make predictions.

• ​Questioning during reading:

​It creates a dialogue in the reader's mind.

• ​Questioning after reading:

​It can stimulate critical analysis

and further research on the topic.

• ​Questioning can be used to help build the reader's vocabulary.

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• ​Skimming the text and placing question marks in the margins is a strategy that can yield information for a topic, and readers develop their own reading glossaries.

Multiple Choice

When we consider what we are reading we cannot turn the information into questions.

• True.

• False.

​Thin and thick questions

• ​Thin questions:

  • are answered with factual information

    • that can be found in the text

  • ​are answered with a few words or brief sentences

• ​Thick questions:

  • ​require inferential responses

    • ​that require the reader to think

    • ​and offer his opinions and ideas

Multiple Choice

Why do we ask questions?

• To increase motivation and interest.

• To evaluate readers' preparation and to develop critical thinking skills.

• To nurture insights and to stimulate independent learning.

• All of the above.

​Types of Questions

​Questions classified according to Bloom's Taxonomy, which includes six categories:

• ​Knowledge

• ​Comprehension

• ​Application

• ​Analysis

• ​Synthesis

• ​Evaluation

Multiple Choice

Recall data or information.

• Comprehension questions.

• Analysis questions.

• Knowledge questions.

• Synthesis questions.

Multiple Choice

Make judgements about the value of ideas or products.

• Application questions.

• Evaluation questions.

• Knowledge questions.

• Synthesis questions.

Multiple Choice

Use a concept in a new situation.

• Comprehension questions.

• Evaluation questions.

• Knowledge questions.

• Application questions.

Multiple Choice

Understand meaning.

• Evaluation questions.

• Comprehension questions.

• Synthesis questions.

• Knowledge questions.

Multiple Choice

Combine parts to form new meaning.

• Application questions.

• Comprehension questions.

• Analysis questions.

• Synthesis questions.

Multiple Choice

Separate concepts into parts; distinguish between facts and inferences.

• Application questions.

• Comprehension questions.

• Analysis questions.

• Knowledge questions.

​THANK YOU!

​I hope you've enjoyed the lesson!