SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review)
Definition: SQ3R has students formulate questions and answer them throughout their reading.
Benefits: Gives students a purpose for reading, overview of the text, selectively read, and review what they read. According to Adolescent Literacy, “ it requires them to activate their thinking and review their understanding throughout their reading” (2015).
How Writing is used: Students write and answer questions throughout their reading. Literacy in Context describes how students can create the SQ3R chart on notebook paper. This strategy allows student to write higher level thinking questions.
Examples:
Definition: SQ3R has students formulate questions and answer them throughout their reading.
Benefits: Gives students a purpose for reading, overview of the text, selectively read, and review what they read. According to Adolescent Literacy, “ it requires them to activate their thinking and review their understanding throughout their reading” (2015).
How Writing is used: Students write and answer questions throughout their reading. Literacy in Context describes how students can create the SQ3R chart on notebook paper. This strategy allows student to write higher level thinking questions.
Examples:
This video is a narrated PowerPoint talking about each step of the SQ3R method.
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QAR (Question-Answer-Relationship)
Definition: According to Literacy in Context, “QAR teaches students to identify and then answer questions that can either be found ‘in the book’ or ‘in their heads’”. (Miller and Veatch, 2011).
Benefits: Improves reading comprehension by having students think about the text they are reading. Challenges students to use higher level thinking skills (reading rockets).
Types of Questions (Reading Rockets, 2015)
How Writing is used: Students are often require to write the answer to their questions down within a graphic organizer or piece of paper.
Examples:
Definition: According to Literacy in Context, “QAR teaches students to identify and then answer questions that can either be found ‘in the book’ or ‘in their heads’”. (Miller and Veatch, 2011).
Benefits: Improves reading comprehension by having students think about the text they are reading. Challenges students to use higher level thinking skills (reading rockets).
Types of Questions (Reading Rockets, 2015)
- Right there questions: literal questions, answers found directly in the text
- Think and search questions: answers are found in several parts of the text and put together to find the answer
- Author and you: questions are based on text but student must also relate to their own experiences
- On my own: questions do not require that student has read the passage
How Writing is used: Students are often require to write the answer to their questions down within a graphic organizer or piece of paper.
Examples:
This Video shows how the QAR strategy can be used along with the book The Snowy Day.
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