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Question and Answer Relationships (QAR)
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Name That Literacy Strategy
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The QAR strategy divides questions into these two broad categories.
What are "In the Book" (text-explicit) questions and "In My Head" (text-implicit) questions?
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To instill confidence and success in a struggling reader, a text must have this at 90 to 95 percent based on the student's current reading level.
What is readability?
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This literacy strategy is designed to help students monitor comprehension and direct their thinking as they work through the problem solving process.
What is the Think Aloud literacy strategy.
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This literacy strategy, represented by a three letter acronym, provides a framework that students can use to construct meaning from past knowledge to new material.
What is KWL?
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This three phase literacy strategy, developed by Langer (1981), is a before-reading strategy that helps teachers assess student’s prior knowledge. How students’ prior knowledge is organized can be determined as well as the quality and quantity of language that students use to express their knowledge about a particular topic
What is the PreReading Plan or PReP?
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Answers to these questions are gathered from several parts of the text and put together to make meaning.
What are "Think and Search" questions?
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This literacy strategy can be described as analysis of the smallest unit of language that has an associated meaning.
What is morphemic analysis?
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This literacy strategy was developed by Robinson (1961) to provide a structured approach for students to use when studying content material. This strategy has proven to be effective and versatile and can easily be integrated into many content areas and across grade levels. Students develop effective study habits by engaging in the pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading steps of this strategy.
What is SQ3R?
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Developed by Cunningham in 1982, this literacy strategy is useful in mathematics for solving word problems. The task is to write a summary of the problem in 12 words or less. The student identifies the 12 most important words needed to solve the problem.
What is GIST?
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This literacy strategy uses teacher prompts and students selected topics to give students the opportunity to freely express their own thoughts and opinions in a nonthreatening arena.
What is journaling?
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Literal questions whose answers can be found in the text. Often the words used in the question are the same words found in the text.
What are "Right There" questions?
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This critical factor in reading development is important to beginning readers but it is also important to experienced readers of unfamiliar subjects. This factor should be practiced in isolation and in context.
What is word recognition?
300
This literacy strategy allows teachers and students to organize concepts and identify relationships.
What is concept mapping?
300
These were developed to appraise prior knowledge during the pre-reading phase.
What are anticipation guides?
300
This strategy involves asking students to share, after reading. 3 – Key Details, or Discoveries, or Summary Points 2- Interesting Things You Noticed 1 – Question You Still Have
What is the 3-2-1 comprehension strategy?
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These questions are based on information provided in the text but the student is required to relate it to their own experience. Although the answer does not lie directly in the text, the student must have read the text in order to answer the question.
What are "Author and You" questions?
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Some researchers believe that a student's understanding of this relationship is the best predictor of reading ability. In other words, students understand that words are made of sounds which are represented by this concept. Additional Hint: This concept also starts with the letter s.
What are symbols.
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In this literacy strategy, “pieces” or topics of study are researched and learned by students within groups and then put together in the form of peer teaching between groups.
What is the "Jigsaw" strategy (Aronson, 1978)?
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These are made of five, four, or three students. Each student has specific responsibilities needed to complete the assignment. Hint: This strategy has two words and the first word starts with the letter d.
What are discussion groups?
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Pittleman, Heimlich, Berglund, & French (1991) identify this literacy strategy as a procedure for helping students discriminate details among concepts. This strategy works well with specialized vocabulary as well as general vocabulary in content area literacy. F.A. are the initials of this literacy strategy.
What is feature analysis?
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Of the four QAR subcategories, these are the only questions that do not require the student to have read the passage but he/she must use their background or prior knowledge to answer the question.
What are "On My Own" questions?
500
To fix a reading problem teach these before and after the root respectively.
What are prefixes and suffixes?
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Originally intended to enhance writing by exploring topics or subjects from a variety of dimensions, this literacy strategy is represented by a six sided three dimensional figure.
What is cubing?
500
This is a post-reading strategy that serves as a review of the learning.
What is a reaction guide?
500
Readence, Bean, & Baldwin (2001) state that the purpose of this strategy is to help students generate a list of words to be explored and learned and to use their own prior knowledge and interests to enhance their vocabulary.
What is the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy (VSS)?