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- 2. “Research shows that in the home, children initiate significantly more than half of all questions. Though school is supposedly designed to offer a rich language and learning environment, Tizard and Hughes showed that children ask less than 5% of the questions at nursery school. This percentage doesn’t improve much with time, with students in high school asking less than 15% of all questions, most of these being lower level questions.
- 3. How can teachers foster a classroom culture where student questions guide inquiry and learning?
- 4. One of my favorite things to do on the weekends is to visit antique stores. Not only do I love history, but I love a good mystery? On my last picking adventure I found a few items that I just couldn’t live without. As you think about this object, what questions come to mind?
- 5. Closed or thin questions have a single correct answer. The answers can be found in text, or are fact-based answers. When? Where? Who? How many?
- 6. Open or thick questions have no one right answer. The answers cannot be readily found and require some thinking. Why do you think…? What if…? How would you feel…? What might…?
- 7. Separate your questions into open and closed questions. If you only have one or two open questions, add more questions to your chart.
- 9. During and English Language Arts lesson, Mrs. Jones had her students read a printed version of the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears. When the students finished they were guided to an online version so they would have two different accounts of the same event. To guide student thinking , Mrs. Jones asked the students to gather at the front of the room for a discussion. She posed the following questions to guide their thinking.
- 10. • What was learned about Goldilocks? • What are the key ideas in the story? • What might have happened if the bears had not left their home? • Is it ever OK to go into a stranger’s house? • What did the bears have for breakfast? • Who found Goldilocks in baby bear’s bed? • How do you think it might feel to find a little girl in your house? • What other stories have you read where the main characters act in unsafe ways?
- 11. What type of tasks promote… Wonderment?