Questioning

How to make students better questioners, problem solvers, and

higher level thinkers

How does a student being inquisitive help them become better questioners?

What are the different type of questions?

• Essential Questions • Subsidiary Questions• Hypothetical Questions • Telling Questions• Planning Questions• Organizing Questions• Probing Questions • Sorting & Sifting Questions • Clarification Questions

• Strategic Questions • Elaborating Questions • Unanswerable Questions • Inventive Questions • Provocative Questions • Irrelevant Questions • Divergent Questions • Irreverent Questions

• A questioning toolkit• http://www.fno.org/

nov97/toolkit.html

The 5 W’s and How

• Q Tasks wheel for questioning

EVENT SITUATION CHOICE PERSON REASON MEANS

Present What is/are? Where/when is/are? Which is/are? Who is/are? Why is/are? How is/are?

Past What did/do/does?

Where/when did/do/does?

Which did/do/does?

Who did/do/does?

Why did/do/does?

How did/do/does?

Possibility What can? Where/when can? Which can? Who can? Why can? How can?

Probability What would/could?

Where/when would/could?

Which would/could?

Who would/could?

Why would/could?

How would/could?

Prediction What will? Where/when will? Which will? Who will? Why will? How will?

Imagination What might? Where/when might? Which might? Who might? Why might? How might?

http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/pqr/questionmatirx.htm

Teaching strategies for questioning using Q Tasks

• 20 Questions• Jeopardy• Trivial Pursuit• Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader?

How do you develop good questioning?

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Work Citedhttp://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/QI/TOOLS/pqr/questionmatirx.htm

A Questioning Toolkit http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Q Tasks: How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers. Markham, Ontario 2006

Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Build Your Own Information Literate School. Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing 2004