Asking/Answering Different Types Of Questions (A Modified Version Of

asking/answering different types of questions (a modified version of the question-answer relationships, or qar). right here questions

Asking/Answering Different Types of Questions
(A modified version of the question-answer relationships, or QAR).
Right Here Questions
Here and There Questions
Using What I Know Questions
Questions can be answered by looking in the text.
Answers:
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are located in one place in the story
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are often word-for-word from the text
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are usually one sentence long
Questions can be answered by looking in the text.
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Answers are more complex and often longer. They can be more than a
sentence long.
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Information to answer the question is found in several places in
the text (across paragraphs and pages). The various pieces of
information must be combined to create the answer.
Questions cannot be answered by looking in the text.
Answers require that students:
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think about information from the text,
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what they already know about the topic,
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and combine these to respond
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Putting together the information they learned in the text with
what they already know about the topic, will require that students
draw conclusions, make connections, and/or make inferences.
Example: The answer to “What did Maurice do when he got to the party?”
is found on the first paragraph of page 17, in the sentence: “When
Maurice got to the party, he asked Lisa to dance with him.”
Example: The answer to “What did Maurice do last weekend?” is found in
several different places in the text. Page 17 tells us that he first
went to a party, page 18 describes his trip to the zoo on Saturday,
and page 21 has information about his visit to the Science Museum. One
way to answer the question is:
“On Friday he went to a party, on Saturday he visited the zoo, and on
Sunday he went to see the dinosaurs at the Science Museum.”
Example:
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How do you think Maurice felt when Lisa did not want to dance with
him?
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What would you have done if Lisa did not want to dance with you?
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Why do you think Maurice had a hard time getting up on Monday
morning?
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Do you think Maurice went to all these places by himself? Why?
Question and Answer Cards
Right Here Questions
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Questions can be answered by looking in the text
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Answers are located in one place in the story
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Answers can be found word-for-word in the text
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Questions can be answered in one sentence
Here and There Questions
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Questions can be answered by looking in the text
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Answers are found in more than one place in the text and then put
together
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Answers require one or more sentences
Using What I Know Questions
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Questions cannot be answered by looking in the text
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Think about the information in the text
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Think about what you already know
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Put these together to answer the question
Adapted from Raphael (1986); Texas Second Grade Teacher Reading
Academies (2001)
Developed by Maria Elena Arguelles