More Resources on Want Strategic Readers? Ask Strategic Questions

Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Want Strategic Readers? Ask Strategic Questions. Some are instructional and content resources, and others are professional resources. *

Instructional and Content Resources

Using QARs to Develop Comprehension and Reflective Reading Habits

ORC# 4745

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/u...

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7

Professional Commentary: Mature readers move from reading for literal comprehension to developing inferential comprehension strategies. This lesson provides a foundation for building reflective reading habits, which enables students to develop these higher-level comprehension strategies....

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Questioning

ORC# 8712

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategy_each.aspx?id=00000...

Resource Type: Professional Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–12

Professional Commentary: "Browse Reading Strategies" includes a list of reading strategies, each of which opens to a full resource on the strategy. "Questioning" is an excellent resource for teachers and educators seeking more information about strategies for questioning (OGT et al.), and can be linked to directly: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/strategy/strategy_each.aspx?id=000003....

Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS

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Module Makers: Building Online Research Modules

ORC# 1080

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://questioning.org/module/module.html

Resource Type: Content Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12

Professional Commentary: This online research module creator guides teachers through the process of building an online research project that will engage and challenge students. These modules can be designed to integrate research and presentation strategies with challenging content from state academic content standards....

Career Fields: General Career Skills

Projects: AdLIT, Standards First

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Socratic Seminars

ORC# 2412

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.studyguide.org/socratic_seminar.htm

Resource Type: Content Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12

Professional Commentary: The Socratic method uses dialogue to encourage critical thinking as students ask meaningful questions and share thoughtful ideas. After students read and examine a common piece of text, open-ended questions are posed....

Career Fields: General Career Skills

Projects: AdLIT, Standards First

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Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Question-Answer Relationships

ORC# 8693

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qar.html

Resource Type: Content Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12

Professional Commentary: This site briefly examines question-answer relationships in order to help educators facilitate the question-answer response in their classroom. Several key areas of question-answer relationships are addressed: (1) the definition of a question-answer relationship; (2) an explanation of the four QARs ("right there," "think and search," "author and you," and "on my own"); (3) a sample, download and print version of a QAR graphic organizer; (4) a download and print version of a QAR concept map; and (5) an example of what this question-answer relationship looks like in practice....

Projects: AdLIT

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Professional Resources

Improving Literary Understanding Through Classroom Conversation

ORC# 789

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.albany.edu/cela/publication/env.pdf

Resource Type: Professional Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–12

Professional Commentary: Drawn from the research of Judith Langer at the Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA), this resource examines how students think when they discuss literature and offers ideas on how to use classroom discourse to deepen students' thinking. The resource begins with an overview of the research study and a list of guiding questions, which...

Career Fields: General Career Skills

Projects: AdLIT, Standards First

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A Questioning Toolkit

ORC# 8692

Resource Information

Resource URL: http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

Resource Type: Professional Resource

Discipline: English Language Arts

Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12

Professional Commentary: This professional resource houses a valuable and virtually exhaustive list of ways to generate questions. Author Jamie McKenzie uses graphic organizers and bulleted points to create visual concepts of questioning skills....

Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills

Projects: AdLIT, Standards First

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* ORC Records

In case you are not familiar with ORC's records, here is a very brief explanation of the resource commentaries and the records.

Each commentary is part of a larger record created by the Ohio Resource Center. The commentaries describe high-quality Internet-based resources in the areas of mathematics, science, and reading. In addition to the commentaries, the records specify grade levels appropriate to the resources and align the resources to the relevant Ohio standards, benchmarks, and indicators (providing an excellent way to help teachers implement the Ohio standards in their classrooms)―plus much more. Each resource can be accessed directly from the record.

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