QUESTION TYPE
Recitation Prompts
Reminder Questions
Implied Answer Questions
Guided Prediction Prompts
Discussion Questions
DEFINITION
EXAMPLES
Calls for students to offer rote recitation of
material they have covered in class.
“When you write essays, how many
paragraphs should they have?”
“What was the other thing we read and
contrasted with two movies?”
“What’s the definition of symbol?”
“What’s an introduction?”
“What does he mean by tyrant? That was
one of you vocabulary words.”
“Remember the foreshadowing? The light
fell on what?”
“Remember, as we have discussed, this is
a multi-paragraph essay, which means?”
“Does Helen need pity? Or does she need
some other kind of discipline?’
“The producer takes the words out of the
man’s mouth and puts then in the voice of
a woman. Wouldn’t that change things?
Are men and women exactly alike?”
Like recitation prompts, reminder
questions have clear answers; however,
these kinds of questions include hints from
the teacher of where they might find the
answer or in what context the class had
originally discussed the answer
Unlike recitation and reminder questions,
the answers to implied questions have not
been covered in class yet; nonetheless,
there is a single desired response the
teacher is looking for. The teacher often
hints at the answer by following the
question itself with as “or” phrase or with a
call for common sense knowledge that
would imply the answer to the academic
question.
Higher than the previous three, but the
teacher’s inclusion in some information
about the starting point students should
use in the thinking about the prompt
signaled to students that she valued some
responses more highly than others.
Demonstrates that the teacher is thinking
along with the students. Often pose
conversationally. Call for complex
responses and may include personal
opinion. Requires some thinking time
before answering.
9.
“Given that definition, anyone want to take
a guess at what are some of the symbols,
things that represent something else, in
this play?”
“So given that, tell me what you think
about the plots. What do you think are
one of the plots?”
“Let me ask you this, was it better or
worse than you pictured?”
Let me just ask you—is that true, what
Lysander says: “The course of true love
never did run true? Think about it.”