BOX 7: GUIDED PRACTICE USING DIRECTED INQUIRY BEFORE READING
A. Look at the cover and the title.
What do you think the book is about?

Possible responses: a woman, flowers, cane, house, hill, water - sea? ocean, gull......

B. Look at the first picture inside the book.

Read the first paragraph to the book.
Discuss the notion of a family tree.
Reinforce that the first paragraph is an introduction.

Directs group to read the next two pages looking for answers to the inquiry questions (Display Chart, Box 5).

Elicits answers:
Who -the Lupine Lady, great aunt, Alice, Miss Rumphius
Where -America
When -a long time ago

C. Now continue to read to identify What, Why, and How. You may find more information about the first three questions (Who, Where, and When). Directs group to continue to use the chart (Box 5) to guide their inquiry and to use that format as a guide in recording the key information from the story. After a few minutes, stops the group to monitor progress. Has the group identify the main problem in the story or the main character's goal.
What - to do three things:
  1. visit far away places
  2. live by the sea
  3. make the world beautiful
Summarizing Concepts

Following the retelling practice, the instructor brings the session to closure by reinforcing the role that the Directed Inquiry questions play in prompting our memory.
  1. After the small group reading is completed, discusses with the total group how the story is resolved using the Directed Inquiry questions chart (Box 5) as a reference.

    Miss Rumphius accomplished all that she set out to "do", which was her goal, because she visited faraway places, lived by the sea, but most importantly, made the world a more beautiful place.

  2. Directs participants and volunteers to practice retelling the story to each other in small groups (first one person, then the next) using the Directed Inquiry questions as a memory cue.

  3. Encourages participants to try this strategy at home once they choose a family story from the program's library. Record types of responses on the Reading Response Record (Appendix A, Book I).
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