Information about the strategy:
QAR stands for question, answer, and relationship. The purpose of this strategy is to help students identify the relationship between questions and answers. It also teaches students how to identify the different types of questions and how to answer them. This strategy also helps students understand what information can be answered from the text and which ones need to be answered using inferences. When students successfully use this they rely on both their prior knowledge and the information from the text to answer questions, which is very important for students to make connections between the two. This strategy teaches students that the questions from the text can be answered from both, their prior knowledge and from the text. If answers are from the book they can either be right there, which are answers found in single sentences, or think and search, which are answers that can be pieced together from different sections of the text. If answers are in your head they can either be author and you answers, which are answers where students make inferences based on prior knowledge and details from the text, or on my own answers, which are answers where students craft the answers without reading the text. How this strategy can be used in a classroom: This strategy can be used in a whole group. Before the texts is read aloud, the students can brainstorm questions they have about the topic. While reading the text, they can pause if a question is answered. They can discuss as a class the questions and how it was answered. After reading, they can use inferences to answer the questions that were not answered from the text. The second way this strategy can be used in the classroom is in small group. The students can create questions as a group and together answer them as they read the text. This would allow for the student to collaboratively work together in a group to ask and answer questions from their text, using this strategy. Writing standard:
This strategy would fall under writing standards W8 and W9. W8 is gather relevant information from multiple print and digital resources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. W9 is draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. |
Research:
The QAR strategy helps improve students' reading comprehension because it teaches students how to ask and answer questions about what they are reading. It also teaches students where to find the answers to the questions they have about the topic. This strategy helps students to focus and think about the text they are reading. It also helps students to think beyond the text. Finally, it helps the students to think creatively and work cooperatively while using higher-level thinking skills. (Question-Answer Relationship, n.d.). Video examples and explanations:
This video shows a teacher introducing the QAR strategy to students. It is important to see how different teachers introduce this strategy to their students in order to see if you think it would fit with your class and how you could introduce the strategy to your classroom.
This video introduces and explains the QAR reading strategy. It explains the two different categories questions could be and the four different sub categories.
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Sources:
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.
Question-Answer Relationship (QAR). (n.d.). Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/question_answer_relationship
Miller, M., & Veatch, N. (2011). Strategies to Increase Comprehension. Literacy in context (LinC): choosing instructional strategies to teach reading in content areas for students grades 5-12 (). Boston: Pearson.
Question-Answer Relationship (QAR). (n.d.). Reading Rockets. Retrieved July 22, 2014, from http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/question_answer_relationship