Readers of The House of the Scorpion try to stump their teacher in a QAR questioning game. Pairs craft Right There, Think and Search, On Your Own, and the Author and You questions and the class members then take turns responding to questions posed by the teacher, and asking their questions of the teacher.

Concepts

reading comprehension strategies, forming questions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Expand the time allotted for question building

Classroom Considerations

• The last in a series of six resources designed to be used with The House of the Scorpion
• The exercise assumes that class members have previously been introduced to the QAR method of questioning and have experience crafting the three types of questions

Pros

• A rationale for the strategy, model QAR questions, and directions for the game are included in the resource

Cons

• None