QAR Comprehension Lessons: Grades 4?5: 16 Lessons With Text Passages That Use Question Answer Relationships to Make Reading Strategies Concrete for All Students

Raphael, Taffy, Au, Kathryn

ISBN 10: 0545264103 / ISBN 13: 9780545264105

Published by Scholastic Teaching Resources (T, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: QAR Comprehension Lessons: Grades 4?5: 16 Lessons With Text Passages That Use Question Answer Relationships to Make Reading Strategies Concrete for All Students
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (T
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545264103
• ISBN 13: 9780545264105
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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 4-5 book teaches QAR questioning strategies that build essential comprehension skills students need to succeed on tests-from summarizing to making inferences.

• 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 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.