The kids have been working so hard on preparing for the reading TAKS test next week! Ms. Ruth and Ms. Rowles have been working so hard to get the students ready to be successful on the test. Students should be using their reading strategies when reading as well as using and labeling their QAR strategies when answering questions on practice passages!
What is QAR you ask??
It stands for question, answer, and response. There are 4 types of questions that students have learned how to identify.
1. Right There (RT)-Questions where you can go directly into the passage and find the answer
2. Author and Me (AM)- this is the same thing as inferring. Taking information given in the text and what the student should already know (schema) and connecting those two to come up with a response. These are tricky and often times students don't even know they are inferring until they start thinking about the meaning as they are reading.
3. Think and Search (T+S)-This is where they might have to put different pieces of the story together to come up with the best answer. Summarizing a paragraph would be an example of this!
4. On my own-Questions that a child can respond with their own opinion or thoughts. The test will not have any of these on them.
Monday, February 23, 2009
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