31. QUESTIONING THE AUTHOR (Reading, Questioning, Writing, Discussion)
Description: Perfect for high school students, this strategy challenges students to consider the author’s intent in writing the piece and to judge the author’s success in that endeavor.
Application: Use this as a way for students to not only understand an author’s work, but to possibly revise in order for the content to be communicated in a more understandable way.
Process: Find interesting, appropriate length text for the topic that can spark discussion. Before class meets, decide the stop points and questions that accompany the stops. Use questions such as What is the author trying to tell you? Why is the author telling you that? Does the author say it clearly? Does this section make sense to you? How could the author have said things more clearly? What would you say instead? Modify strategy for homework assignments by pre-determining stop points with accompanying questions. Model this strategy in class before using it as a graded homework assignment.
Description: Perfect for high school students, this strategy challenges students to consider the author’s intent in writing the piece and to judge the author’s success in that endeavor.
Application: Use this as a way for students to not only understand an author’s work, but to possibly revise in order for the content to be communicated in a more understandable way.
Process: Find interesting, appropriate length text for the topic that can spark discussion. Before class meets, decide the stop points and questions that accompany the stops. Use questions such as What is the author trying to tell you? Why is the author telling you that? Does the author say it clearly? Does this section make sense to you? How could the author have said things more clearly? What would you say instead? Modify strategy for homework assignments by pre-determining stop points with accompanying questions. Model this strategy in class before using it as a graded homework assignment.
Reference, and/or for more information
31. Questioning the Author
Attributed to McKeown, Beck, & Worthy, 1993.
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qta.html
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/question_the_author
31. Questioning the Author
Attributed to McKeown, Beck, & Worthy, 1993.
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/qta.html
http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/question_the_author