AE Live! Teacher Professional Development Events - AE Live 16.4 -The Line Between: Questions, Responses, and Critical Reading

This session introduces the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) framework for building readers’ confidence in locating specific information in a text or turning to themselves to answer questions that require thinking beyond the text. After a brief review of research on how building reading strategies can also enhance students’ reading comprehension, participants will use an anchor text, Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, to explore four QAR questions categories as well as steps for applying this approach in classrooms. QAR can achieve more than orienting our students to the range of questions that might be asked of a text—it champions the notion that question making and responding is our shared right and responsibility. Skills developed through the QAR framework are especially relevant to the media literacy requirements of today's complex information landscape. To learn more English or to get additional resources for English language teaching, see: http://www.facebook.com/AmericanEnglishatState  http://www.facebook.com/AmericanEnglishforEducators http://americanenglish.state.gov http://openenglishprograms.org