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Question-Answer Relationships (QARs). Rashawn Grissom EDUC 585 May 9, 2011. Development. QAR was developed by Taffy Raphael as a tool for clarifying how students can approach the task of reading texts and answering questions. QARs. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Question-Answer Relationships (QARs)
Rashawn GrissomEDUC 585
May 9, 2011
QAR was developed by Taffy Raphael as a tool for clarifying how students can approach the task of reading texts and answering questions.
Development
QARs help students enhance their comprehension by learning to answer a range of questions and understand each questions relationship to the text, to the author, and to themselves (i.e., in the book, in my head). “Where would I find an answer to this question
in the text?” What type of question is this? How do I answer
it?
QARs
Explicitly shows the relationship between questions and answers
Categorizes different types and levels of questions
Helps students to analyze, comprehend, and respond to text concepts
Helps refute the common misconception held by students that the text contains all of the answers
Why use this strategy?
Students need to understand:
What is QAR?
How do you perform a QAR?
When would you use the strategy?
Why would you use the strategy?
Before Independently Using QAR
How do we Teach QARs?
Model the desired behavior Asking questions, finding answers, and then
categorizing the question-answer relationship Guide students as they practice the desired
behavior Gradually release the responsibility for learning to
the students Provide opportunity for students to try the
strategy on their own Observe and evaluate students performance to
inform instruction
Literal Question (right there)
Inferential Question (think and search)
Critical Question (author and you)
Creative Question (on my own)
Types of Questions
For literal questions, the answer is “right there” in the text.
Exact words from the question are in the text.
Literal Question
Answer can be found if the student will “think and search” or “put it together.”
Students will have to bring two ideas together from the text in order to figure out the answer.
Inferential Question
The answer is not directly in the text.
The student will have to combine their own ideas with the author's opinion in order to come up with an answer to the question.
Critical Question
The student will not find a direct answer in the text.
There may be a range of different answers to the question, the student must come to an answer based on his/her imagination or from information he/she already knew about the topic.
Creative Question
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hillto fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crownand Jill came tumbling after.
Intro Practice
1. Where did Jack and Jill go?
Answer: Up the hill to get some water
QAR: Right there
Questions
2. Did Jill get the pail of water?
Answer: No, she fell down the hill too.
QAR: Think and Search (Putting it together)
Questions
3. What could have caused Jack’s crown to break when he fell down the hill?
Answer: The pail of water hit him in the
head
QAR: Author and Me
Questions
4. Do you think Jack and Jill ever got the pail of water they went up the hill to get?
Answer: I think they got the pail of water but it all spilled out when they fell down the
hill.
QAR: On my own
Questions
Cecil, N. L., & Gipe, J. P. (2009). Reading comprehension. In Literacy in grades 4-8: Best practices for a comprehensive program (2nd ed.,
pp. 149-151). Scottsdale, Arizona: Holcomb Hathaway.
Jones, R. C. (2006). Strategies for reading comprehension: Question-answer relationships. Retrieved May,
2011, from Reading Quest.org website: http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qar.html
Question answer relationship: Teaching children where to seek answers to questions. (n.d.). Retrieved May, 2011, from Readinglady.com website: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/ QARQuestionAnswerRelationshipTeachingChildrenWheretoS eekAnswerstoQuestions.pdf
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