Formulate clarifying questions for use before, during, and after reading. SPI 0601.6.1

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1. Asking people - develop pupils' skills in gaining information from people, e.g. who to choose, interview skills and questionnaire design.
2. Asking Questions - the types of questions depend on the answer to that first important question: Why am I reading this? Once you establish a purpose for yourself, you can then ask which questions will help you achieve that goal. This page asks students to rank a set of questions on a scale of one to five.
3. Effective Questioning Strategies - Questions give the chance to find out what students know and understand, and it allows students to seek clarification and help.
4. Media Elements - chart format of questions to ask when evaluating media.
5. Questioning Toolkit - seventeen types of questions from the educational journal, FNO
6. Question Strategies Before Reading - Many ideas to use
7. Questioning Techniques: Research-Based Strategies for Teachers - Questions that focus student attention on important elements of a lesson result in better comprehension than those that focus on unusual or interesting elements.

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