Teaching Resources
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Want to learn more or plan a lesson? Check out these links!
- Reading Comprehension Home
- Making Connections
- Fluency
- Determining Importance
- Inferring
- Metacognition
- Questioning
- Synthesizing
- Visualizing and Imagery
- Vocabulary and Word Identification
- Writing Across the Curriculum
Important UNCG Links
Questioning
- About Questioning
- Professional Books to help you develop lesson plans
- Children’s Books to use in lesson plans
- Some Helpful Web sites
Websites:
This is a good website for helping you to plan a lesson using the making connections reading strategy. It has information on the reading strategy that can be used for further research on the subject. It is also a good source for getting lesson plan ideas and a bibliography of books that can be used for lessons.
Literacy Matters – Reading: Questioning
This website has tons of information about the questioning strategy.
This website is full of activities for students and assessment guides for teachers.
Questioning – A Comprehension Strategy for Small Group Guided Reading
This website has a set of lesson plans that spans over the course of three different class times.
Quotes:
One of the most powerful cognitive tools for reading comprehension is questioning…
Framing questions about a text pushes students to read with greater purpose and, therefore, with greater focus.
1(Shoenbach, Greenleaf, Cziko & Hurwitz, 1999, p. 80)
Real questions stimulate interest, add motivation, and deepen understanding.
2(Maloney, A. as quoted in Hoyt, L., 2005, p. 111)
2Hoyt, L. (2005). Spotlight on comprehension: Building a literacy of thoughtfulness. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books.
1Shoenbach,R., Greenleaf, C., Cziko, C., & Hurwitz, L. (1999). Reading for understanding: A Guide to improving reading in middle and high school classrooms. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.