QAR Comprehension Lessons: Grades 2–3: 16 Lessons With Text Passages That Use Question Answer Relationships to Make Reading Strategies Concrete for All Students - Softcover

Raphael, Taffy E.; Au, Kathryn H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 054526409X ISBN 13: 9780545264099

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies), 2011

Synopsis

This complete set of lessons and companion passages for teaching Question Answer Relationships (QAR)―proven comprehension strategies―helps students achieve in reading and prepare for reading tests. Includes CD with whiteboard-ready passages for every less

A research-based approach for improving comprehension, Question Answer Relationships (QAR) has been helping students achieve in reading for more than 20 years. Each lesson includes a step-by-step teaching guide, a grade-perfect nonfiction article, poem, or story to model the target QAR strategy, and an assessment activity. Includes a CD with strategy mini-posters, assessment tools, and whiteboard-ready passages for every lesson.

The Grades 2-3 book introduces students to the basic QAR language and shows them how to answer questions in key comprehension areas-from predicting to asking questions.

• A step-by-step way to ensure all readers succeed.
• Great for RTI!
• Prepares students for answering questions on standardized reading tests.
• Passages on CD are compatible with any interactive whiteboard system.

About this title

About the Author

Taffy E. Raphael, creator of the Question Answer Relationships (QAR) framework, has researched teaching QAR comprehension strategies since the 1980s. She is a member of the faculty in Literacy Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has written numerous research articles and books, including QAR Now (Scholastic, 2006), which she coauthored with Kathryn Au.

Kathryn H. Au, who served as president of the International Reading Association from 2009–2010, is an educational consultant and former professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has published widely on the topic of literacy instruction and diversity, including Multicultural Issues and Literacy Achievement (Erlbaum). Coauthor of QAR Now, her current work focuses on school change that improves student achievement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 054526409X
• ISBN 13: 9780545264099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128