"Are you ready Devin?" Angie asked.
"I'm locked loaded and ready to go" Devin replied.
Truly the only hope for civilization rested on the shoulders of these courageous kids.
With a burst of throttle the helicopter cut through the evening sky.
The helicopter landed its propellers slowing to a halt exactly on top of the Great Wall of China.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Questioning Continued
Evaluative Questions
3) Evaluative – Questions of evaluation ask us to think about something in the piece based on our own knowledge, values or experiences of life, to decide if we agree with the author’s point of view.
- Evaluative questions do help us understand the piece better.
- Evaluative questions have answers based on the reader’s schema of the way the world really works (not just unsupported opinions)...The answers can be supported from real experiences.
- Evaluative questions are important because they help us relate the experiences of the piece to our own life and the real world.
Shoemaker… Evaluative Questions
- When the shoemaker received the letter from the rich man, why did the shoemaker go “at once”?
Evaluative Questions - Your Turn
Write one evaluative question about the story on the piece of scrap paper you received.
-?
Interpretive Questions
4) Interpretive – A question of interpretation asks readers to look carefully at what happens in the piece and consider what it means—what the author wants us to think about.
- Interpretive questions do help us understand the piece better.
- Interpretive questions are important because they help the reader focus on the piece, always digging into it instead of wandering off track (unlike
evaluative questions which tend to turn into “what if…” and “maybe…” answers which then lead into opinions not based on any support).
- Interpretive questions have more than one reasonable answer which can be supported from evidence in the text—answer based on the piece (you can “prove” it from the piece).
- There should be genuine doubt about the answers to interpretive questions—any of the supported answers may be true.
Shoemaker… Interpretive Questions
- Why did the rich man think that giving the man gold would stop his singing?
Interpretive Questions - Your Turn
Write one interpretive question about the story on the piece of scrap paper you received.
-?
Evaluative vs. Interpretive
Interpretive and evaluative questions are closely related to each other. The easiest way to figure out which type of question it is, is by looking at the type of answer you get.
A question could be either evaluative or interpretive:
- If the answer is supported by real life experiences, it is an evaluative answer.
- If there are at least two different possible answers, and both of them can be supported by the story, then it is an interpretive answer.
It is usually harder to find evaluative questions than fact and guess questions. It is hardest of all to find interpretive questions.
3) Evaluative – Questions of evaluation ask us to think about something in the piece based on our own knowledge, values or experiences of life, to decide if we agree with the author’s point of view.
- Evaluative questions do help us understand the piece better.
- Evaluative questions have answers based on the reader’s schema of the way the world really works (not just unsupported opinions)...The answers can be supported from real experiences.
- Evaluative questions are important because they help us relate the experiences of the piece to our own life and the real world.
Shoemaker… Evaluative Questions
- When the shoemaker received the letter from the rich man, why did the shoemaker go “at once”?
Evaluative Questions - Your Turn
Write one evaluative question about the story on the piece of scrap paper you received.
-?
Interpretive Questions
4) Interpretive – A question of interpretation asks readers to look carefully at what happens in the piece and consider what it means—what the author wants us to think about.
- Interpretive questions do help us understand the piece better.
- Interpretive questions are important because they help the reader focus on the piece, always digging into it instead of wandering off track (unlike
evaluative questions which tend to turn into “what if…” and “maybe…” answers which then lead into opinions not based on any support).
- Interpretive questions have more than one reasonable answer which can be supported from evidence in the text—answer based on the piece (you can “prove” it from the piece).
- There should be genuine doubt about the answers to interpretive questions—any of the supported answers may be true.
Shoemaker… Interpretive Questions
- Why did the rich man think that giving the man gold would stop his singing?
Interpretive Questions - Your Turn
Write one interpretive question about the story on the piece of scrap paper you received.
-?
Evaluative vs. Interpretive
Interpretive and evaluative questions are closely related to each other. The easiest way to figure out which type of question it is, is by looking at the type of answer you get.
A question could be either evaluative or interpretive:
- If the answer is supported by real life experiences, it is an evaluative answer.
- If there are at least two different possible answers, and both of them can be supported by the story, then it is an interpretive answer.
It is usually harder to find evaluative questions than fact and guess questions. It is hardest of all to find interpretive questions.
Monday, February 25, 2013
DW- Feb. 27
If you could be on any television game show, what would it be? Tell what would happen when you are on the show.
Questioning
Read and discuss these points as a class.
What is “Comprehension”?
-What is “comprehension”?
-Why is it important?
-When do you need to comprehend things?
Questioning
-What is the purpose of questions?
-Is there such a thing as a “dumb” question?
-When do you usually have to answer questions at school?
-What kinds of questions do you usually have to answer?
Questioning for Comprehension (Meaning)
Questioning is a good strategy for comprehending a piece because… (throw out some ideas).
-it slows the reader down long enough to use other good reading
comprehension strategies as well.
-it makes the meaning clear by focusing on parts that are hard to
understand.
-it helps figure out the author’s purpose by focusing on important parts.
-it help us get off the surface and into the meat of the material.
-it prompts us to research and find out more.
Two Categories of Questions
Some kinds of questions are better at helping us comprehend than others.
Simple Questions
- have simple answers (takes a few words to state)
- are limited (find an answer and move on)
- focuses on objects/things
Complex Questions
- are unlimited (can lead you to think of more questions)
- have layered answers (takes paragraphs to explain)
- focuses on ideas
Four Types of Questions
Simple Questions
- Fact
- Guess
Complex Question
- Evaluative
- Interpretive
Factual Questions
1) Fact – A question of fact has only one correct answer and can be answered directly from information given in a source. (When dealing with fictional material it may not be “true” information, but you can look in the story and find the “correct” answer.)
- Factual questions don’t help us specifically understand the meaning of the piece any better.
- Someone has already done the thinking for you, all you have to do is find out what they wrote.
- Factual answers are usually short.
- Factual questions check to see if we remember details from a story.
- These are the types of questions you are usually asked on tests.
The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
by Jean de La Fontaine
Once upon a time there lived a poor but cheerful shoemaker. He was so happy he sang all day long. The children loved to stand around his window to listen to him.
Next door to the shoemaker lived a rich man. He used to sit up all night to count his gold. In the morning he went to bed, but he could not sleep because of the sound of the shoemaker’s singing. One day he thought of a way of stopping the singing. He wrote a letter to the shoemaker asking him to come by.
The shoemaker went at once, and to his surprise the rich man gave him a bag of gold.
When he got home, the shoemaker opened the bag. He had never seen so much money before! He sat down at his bench and began, carefully, to count it. The children watched through the window.
There was so much there that the shoemaker was afraid to let it out of his sight. So he took it to bed with him. But he could not sleep because he was worrying about it. So he got out of bed and went to hide it in the attic, but he was not sure if that was a good place.
Very early in the morning he got up and brought his gold down from the attic. He had decided to hide it up the chimney instead. But after breakfast he thought it would be safer in the chicken house. So he hid it there.
But he was still uneasy, and in a little while he dug a hole in the garden and buried his bag of gold in it.
It was no use trying to work. He was too worried about the safety of his gold.
And as for singing, he was too miserable to sing a note. He could not sleep, or work, or sing—and, worst of all, the children no longer came to see him.
At last the shoemaker felt so unhappy that he seized his bag of gold and ran next door to the rich man.
“Please take back your gold,” he said. “Worrying about it is making me ill, and I have lost all my friends. I would rather be a poor shoemaker, as I was before.”
And so the shoemaker was happy again and sang all day at his work.
Shoemaker… Factual Questions
- The shoemaker was so happy he did what all day?
- Who lived next door to the shoemaker?
- What did the rich man give to the shoemaker?
Factual Questions - Your Turn
Write three factual questions about the story on the piece of scrap paper you
received.
-?
-?
-?
Guess Questions
2) Guess – These types of questions could have any answer with no way of knowing if the answer is true or false.
- Guess questions have answers based on opinion.
- Guess questions do not help us understand the piece better.
- Guess questions lead us away from understanding the piece because we are distracted with unnecessary things.
Shoemaker… Guess Questions
- What color was the shoemaker’s hair?
- Where did the rich man work?
- What were the names of the kids who watched and listened to the shoemaker?
Guess Questions - Your Turn
Write three guess questions about the story on the piece of scrap paper you
received.
-?
-?
-?
What is “Comprehension”?
-What is “comprehension”?
-Why is it important?
-When do you need to comprehend things?
Questioning
-What is the purpose of questions?
-Is there such a thing as a “dumb” question?
-When do you usually have to answer questions at school?
-What kinds of questions do you usually have to answer?
Questioning for Comprehension (Meaning)
Questioning is a good strategy for comprehending a piece because… (throw out some ideas).
-it slows the reader down long enough to use other good reading
comprehension strategies as well.
-it makes the meaning clear by focusing on parts that are hard to
understand.
-it helps figure out the author’s purpose by focusing on important parts.
-it help us get off the surface and into the meat of the material.
-it prompts us to research and find out more.
Two Categories of Questions
Some kinds of questions are better at helping us comprehend than others.
Simple Questions
- have simple answers (takes a few words to state)
- are limited (find an answer and move on)
- focuses on objects/things
Complex Questions
- are unlimited (can lead you to think of more questions)
- have layered answers (takes paragraphs to explain)
- focuses on ideas
Four Types of Questions
Simple Questions
- Fact
- Guess
Complex Question
- Evaluative
- Interpretive
Factual Questions
1) Fact – A question of fact has only one correct answer and can be answered directly from information given in a source. (When dealing with fictional material it may not be “true” information, but you can look in the story and find the “correct” answer.)
- Factual questions don’t help us specifically understand the meaning of the piece any better.
- Someone has already done the thinking for you, all you have to do is find out what they wrote.
- Factual answers are usually short.
- Factual questions check to see if we remember details from a story.
- These are the types of questions you are usually asked on tests.
The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
by Jean de La Fontaine
Once upon a time there lived a poor but cheerful shoemaker. He was so happy he sang all day long. The children loved to stand around his window to listen to him.
Next door to the shoemaker lived a rich man. He used to sit up all night to count his gold. In the morning he went to bed, but he could not sleep because of the sound of the shoemaker’s singing. One day he thought of a way of stopping the singing. He wrote a letter to the shoemaker asking him to come by.
The shoemaker went at once, and to his surprise the rich man gave him a bag of gold.
When he got home, the shoemaker opened the bag. He had never seen so much money before! He sat down at his bench and began, carefully, to count it. The children watched through the window.
There was so much there that the shoemaker was afraid to let it out of his sight. So he took it to bed with him. But he could not sleep because he was worrying about it. So he got out of bed and went to hide it in the attic, but he was not sure if that was a good place.
Very early in the morning he got up and brought his gold down from the attic. He had decided to hide it up the chimney instead. But after breakfast he thought it would be safer in the chicken house. So he hid it there.
But he was still uneasy, and in a little while he dug a hole in the garden and buried his bag of gold in it.
It was no use trying to work. He was too worried about the safety of his gold.
And as for singing, he was too miserable to sing a note. He could not sleep, or work, or sing—and, worst of all, the children no longer came to see him.
At last the shoemaker felt so unhappy that he seized his bag of gold and ran next door to the rich man.
“Please take back your gold,” he said. “Worrying about it is making me ill, and I have lost all my friends. I would rather be a poor shoemaker, as I was before.”
And so the shoemaker was happy again and sang all day at his work.
Shoemaker… Factual Questions
- The shoemaker was so happy he did what all day?
- Who lived next door to the shoemaker?
- What did the rich man give to the shoemaker?
Factual Questions - Your Turn
Write three factual questions about the story on the piece of scrap paper you
received.
-?
-?
-?
Guess Questions
2) Guess – These types of questions could have any answer with no way of knowing if the answer is true or false.
- Guess questions have answers based on opinion.
- Guess questions do not help us understand the piece better.
- Guess questions lead us away from understanding the piece because we are distracted with unnecessary things.
Shoemaker… Guess Questions
- What color was the shoemaker’s hair?
- Where did the rich man work?
- What were the names of the kids who watched and listened to the shoemaker?
Guess Questions - Your Turn
Write three guess questions about the story on the piece of scrap paper you
received.
-?
-?
-?
Charades
You practice making inferences every day, though you may know realize it. One thing we do that depends entirely on inferences in reading someone's body language.
Body language involves the messages we send with our faces and bodies, even though we may not have spoken a word. Look at these images, and see if you can make an inference about what the person is communicating with their body.
Now we're going to see how good you are at reading body language. Each of you will come to the front of the room and the teacher will whisper something for you to act out. Do your best to portray it (silently, like a mime). Have fun!! :)
Body language involves the messages we send with our faces and bodies, even though we may not have spoken a word. Look at these images, and see if you can make an inference about what the person is communicating with their body.
Now we're going to see how good you are at reading body language. Each of you will come to the front of the room and the teacher will whisper something for you to act out. Do your best to portray it (silently, like a mime). Have fun!! :)
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