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Scholastic: Questioning the Text WebsiteScholastic: Questioning the Text Website
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Scholastic: Questioning the Text

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In this magazine article originally featured in Instructor, the reading strategy called "questioning the text" is explained by the renowned literacy consultant and staff developer, Stephanie Harvey. The steps included for questioning the text are the following: choosing the text for questioning; introduce the strategy; model thinking and mark the text with stick-on notes and allow time for guided practice.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

active reading, reading strategies, reading comprehension strategies

Additional Tags

modeling, questioning the text, think aloud, scholastic, questioning

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RL.3.1 RI.3.1 RI.4.1 RI.5.1 RL.4.1 RI.4.8 CCRA.R.1 RL.5.1 RI.5.8 SL.3.1.c SL.3.1.d SL.5.1.c SL.3.1.b SL.4.1.c

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