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- Title: Questioning and Informational Texts: Scaffolding Students Comprehension of Content Areas.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
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Questioning Historically and currently, teachers use questioning as a mode of teaching, learning and assessing students' understanding of texts (Durkin, 1978/ 1979; Pressley, 2000). Across disciplines, teachers utilize questioning to promote memory, inquiry, stimulation of thinking and in-depth processing of complex concepts (Feldman, 2003; McKeow & Beck, 2003). Questioning, as described by Harvey and Goudvis (2000, 81), is "the master key to understanding. Additionally it is a stimulus for student talk, engagement, and quest for new knowledge.