Questioning

We are also learning about the comprehension strategy called Questioning. We are still practising using this strategy in school.

If we ask questions before, during and after we read it helps us to think more about what we read, help us to organise what we are thinking and find certain information we need to help us understand what we read. If we ask ourselves questions as we read it helps us to focus on the text.

We are making up our own questions as we read. Some of these questions can be answered in the story, but some are not, and that is okay because we can read between the lines and make some predictions, or we could try and find out the answer by researching it more.

We are using 'I wonder' questions a lot. Our hand signal for this strategy is a 'W' with our hands to show 'I wonder'.

We have been enjoying a lot of books in school as we work on using our strategies. Here is one of the books we have used for questioning:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorist

We are also finding that we are getting very good at using all of the strategies we have learned while we listen to a story or read by ourselves. We use our hand signals and share our predictions, connections, visualisations and questions in class. We can use these strategies to help us understand anything we read.