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[Music] Welcome to Teaching Early 
Readers Questioning Strategies.

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Hi, I'm Brandy Gnad.

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I teach first grade at Garfield 
Elementary School, in Garden City, Kansas.

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The main reading comprehension 
strategies I teach are predict

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and infer, questioning, summarizing 
and retelling, monitoring

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and clarifying, connecting, 
and evaluating.

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My goal and objective today is 
to teach the children how

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to ask questions throughout a 
story and to listen to a story

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and ask questions 
using Think/Pair/Share.

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Today, I am modeling the 
strategy questioning.

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When I teach questioning, I use a 
puppet called Quincy the Questioner.

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I also use a hand signal with my students 
when we are working on questioning.

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The hand signal is holding their 
hand close to their mouth

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as if they are holding a microphone.

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At the beginning of the lesson, 
I am asking the students

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in the class questions using my puppet, 
so what I will do is I use the puppet,

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Quincy the Questioner, and I try 
to get an attention getter

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that gets all of the kids 
engaged right away.

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What I like to do is pick one student 
from the group and put them in front

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of the class and then I will ask 
them questions, like interview,

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like what's your name, how old are 
you, what do you like doing for fun,

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questions like that.

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I ask the students questions using the 
puppet as if I was a talk show host

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on a TV show, which gives them an idea
what it means to ask questions.

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Next, I am asking the students to 
think about question words

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that they have learned 
throughout the year.

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This is when I will make a list 
of question words on the board

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with the children.

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We will come up with words like "who,"
"what," "when," "where," "why," and "how."

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I will write those words on the 
board so that they can refer

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to them throughout the lesson
when they are doing Think/Pair/Share.

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Then I also refer to a poster 
that I have about questioning.

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The poster gives them a visual
of why we ask questions

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and how we ask questions before a story,
during a story, and after a story.

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Once we open up to the story, I use the 
puppet and I model how we ask questions.

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So I ask the children a couple of 
questions looking at the title page

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and the title.

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I like to use a CD with the children 
because it allows the students

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to hear a fluent reader other
than myself.

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I read to my students often,
so they are used to my voice

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and how I read fluently.

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So it gives them another voice as an 
example and a good model of reading fluently.

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As I am teaching questioning to the 
students, and I am stopping the CD,

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the students are also held accountable
for asking questions.

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I will ask them to do Think/Pair/Share.

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Think/Pair/Share is when they have
to take a moment to think first.

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I will give them about 10 to 30 seconds
to think of a question about the story.

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They can use the pictures or they can 
use the story in the text to ask questions.

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And then they will turn to their partner,
and they will ask their partner a

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question, and then their partner will
ask them a question.

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And they will go back and forth 
and that is when they have time

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to practice the skill.

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It really allows the kids to discuss
and it really builds on their oracy.

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Oracy is something that we work 
on because we have a lot of ESL students

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in our school, and it gives them a way 
to build on their oral vocabulary.

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My role as they are doing 
Think/Pair/Share is I walk

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around with the students and I 
usually will sit down or squat

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down and I will try to listen to each
of their questions.

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That way, if they need help or guidance,
I can help them at that moment.

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And then I will just get up
and walk around,

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so I try to at least hear every student,
maybe one time throughout the lesson,

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formulating a question.

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And also if the child is having
difficulty then I can say, "Well,

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why don't you use the question word
where and think of something

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in the story that you would 
love to ask?"

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So it gives me a chance to really 
help them and guide them

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if they need a little extra support.

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In order for my students
to be proficient readers,

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they need to consider good questions
as they read to themselves.

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I feel questioning deepens their
comprehension and understanding

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of what they are reading.

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Also, children love to ask 
questions, so it makes it fun

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and it keeps it interesting 
while they are reading.

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[Music] To learn more about Teaching 
Early Readers Questioning

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Strategies, please explore the
additional resources

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on the Doing What Works website.