The Quick Question Workbook

How can you become a better teacher? Improve your questioning skills! How can kids become better learners? Improve their questioning skills!

There's no doubt - questioning is a common human activity that assumes more importance in the new millennium. And good questions should happen any where, any time. Good questions should start a lesson, expand the lesson, and check for comprehension and application.

The Quick Question Workbook gives kids practice in learning and using good questioning skills. It utilizes the best way to get creative, high level thinking from students - Nancy gives them creative, high level examples on which to piggyback.

Each activity challenges learners to be active questioners, applying their own ideas and opinions as they compose more and more questions. The students will quickly "Catch the Questioning Bug" and discover effective questions are inspiring and encourage participation in thinking. The are vehicles to understanding. They are empowering, building self-confidence through critical and creative thinking skills development. And questions are productive. They challenge ideas and develop new points of view.