Improving Comprehension with Questioning the Author A Fresh and Expanded View of a Powerful Approach,9780439817301

Improving Comprehension with Questioning the Author A Fresh and Expanded View of a Powerful Approach

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780439817301
ISBN10: 0439817307
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-01
Publisher(s): Theory and Practice
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Summary

We want our students to be proficient readers. Engaged readers. Readers who get the big idea and can apply their understandings. But how do we help our students get there? Where do we begin?

Author Biography

Isabel L. Beck is a professor of education and a senior scientist at the University of Pittsburgh Margaret G. McKeown is a senior scientist at University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 5(3)
SECTION 1 Questioning the Author: Helping Students Engle Deeply with Text 8(120)
CHAPTER 1: Texts and the Way Students Understand Them
12(22)
CHAPTER 2: Queries
34(26)
CHAPTER 3: Planning
60(28)
CHAPTER 4: Discussion
88(26)
CHAPTER 5: Implementation
114(14)
SECTION 2 Implementing QtA: 25 Classroom Cases 128(158)
CASE 1: Getting Discussion Going
131(6)
CASE 2: Segmenting Text
137(10)
CASE 3: Responses in the Right/Wrong Mode
147(7)
CASE 4: Too Little Text Covered
154(4)
CASE 5: Follow-Up Queries
158(6)
CASE 6: Student Responses That Contain Wrong Information
164(3)
CASE 7: Ideas Going Astray
167(6)
CASE 8: Focusing Comments
173(6)
CASE 9: Not Getting Anywhere
179(6)
CASE 10: Unanticipated Student Comments
185(8)
CASE 11: Making Connections
193(7)
CASE 12: Lengthy Student Responses
200(5)
CASE 13: Collaboratively Building Understandings
205(8)
CASE 14: Helping Students Grapple
213(6)
CASE 15: Listening to Students' Responses
219(6)
CASE 16: Making It a Discussion
225(3)
CASE 17: Keeping Hold of Text Ideas
228(7)
CASE 18: Keeping Track of Information
235(3)
CASE 19: When Discussion Gets Repetitive
238(7)
CASE 20: Classroom Participation
245(3)
CASE 21: Evaluating Student-Initiated Ideas
248(8)
CASE 22: Constructing Meaning
256(11)
CASE 23: When It's Hard to Formulate a Query
267(7)
CASE 24: Building Toward Understanding
274(9)
CASE 25: Assessment and QtA
283(3)
Excerpted Work 286(2)
References 288(5)
Index 293

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