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About the Practice
QUESTION GENERATION is a reading comprehension practice that teaches students to write questions about important information or facts from a text while they are reading. This helps students pause, think about what is being communicated, and how informatin relates across paragraphs. Studies have shown that this practice can increase comprehension of content area text.
Step 1) Read a text, either in small groups, pairs, or independently.
Step 2) Pause at regular intervals to generate questions and record them in a learning log or journal.
Step 3) Answer questions and indicate where the answer was found in the text.
Students are taught to write two different types of questions: specific questions and wide questions
Professional Development Resources
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