Passages from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart provide the text for a QAR: Question Answer Response comprehension activity. Readers respond to right there, think and search, on your own, and author and you questions.  

 

Concepts

reading comprehension strategies, asking questions, answering questions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Have class members work with a partner and develop their own QAR questions for sections of text

Classroom Considerations

• Part of a series of resources designed to accompany a reading of Things Fall Apart

Pros

• The packet includes a rationale for the activity, step-by-step directions, a worksheet, and an answer key

Cons

• None