Questioning the Author Template
Adaptations:
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Keep the text selections small. Do not try to cover too much text with this strategy. Consider chunking
a larger piece of text and assign different sections for students to Question the Author.
List the QtA questions on a poster in a the classroom.
As students become more skilled at making inferences, consider adding the following
questions, suggested by author Doug Buehl in Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning.
– Does this follow with what the author said before?
– What does the author take for granted that we already know?
– Did the author tell us why?
– Why do you think the author included this information?
TEXT SELECTION
What is the author
trying to tell you?
Why is the author
telling you that?
Is it said clearly?
How might the author
have written it more
clearly?
What would you have
wanted to say instead?