Strategies for Questions
3rd grade, Language Arts Mary Ruebusch
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Objective: The students will identify different types of questions and apply these strategies to test taking.
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Activity: The students will view a series of slides and practice identifying, answering, and writing questions.
• There are essentially 4 types of questions used on tests. They are--– – – – 1. Right there questions 2. Think and search questions 3. Author and me questions 4. On my own questions.
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Procedure: 1. The teacher will click through each of the slides. 2. Discuss the different types of questions. Related Activity: Distribute a test that the students have taken. Identify the question types used on the test.
There are many kinds of questions.
What is your name? How many days until your birthday? Which character was the friendliest? What is your favorite color?
One kind of question is called--Right There
The answer to the question can be found “right there.”
Right There
Mary had a little lamb.
What kind of animal did Mary have?
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Another kind of question is called--Think and Search
The answers to Think and Search questions come from more than one place in the reading.
Example-Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick. Compare and contrast the boys in the Nursery Rhymes.
Think and Search
Another question type is called--Author and Me
To answer these questions you combine what you know with what is in the text.
Author and Me
Example--
Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?
What will they do with the wool?
A final question type is called--On My Own
To answer On My Own questions you use your own experiences and opinions.
On My Own
Example--
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?
What would you plant in your garden?
On a test, read a question carefully.
Ask yourself, how many parts is this question?
Be sure that you answer all the parts to the question.
Practice writing questions for something you are studying.
Question types are: 1. Right there. 2. Think and search. 3. Author and me. 4. On my own.
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