SESSION ONE: SELF-QUESTIONING AS AN
INTERACTIVE READING STRATEGY
Specific Objectives:
- to involve participants directly in their own reading.
- to introduce Self-Questioning as a strategy readers can use for:
a)
establishing purposes for reading
b) identifying relevant
information, and
c)monitoring comprehension: first, by realizing
that they have questions, and second, by perceiving when their
questions are answered and when they are not.
Procedure
I. Introduction
The instructor:
- Makes explicit that the focus of the instruction is on the teaching
and learn ing of strategies that participants can use to increase
their own reading comprehension and also to assist their children
in gaining meaning from text. Although understanding specific stories
is important, a key point to emphasize is that the strategy (in
this case Self-Questioning), which can be generalized and applied
in any reading situation, is what is significant.
- Introduces the Self-Questioning strategy:
Self-Queshoning
is one way learners direct their own reading. Questions help us
think about the story while we are reading. Asking ourselves
queshons and reading to find the answers helps us both understand
and remember what we have read. This means asking questions before
we start to read, then stopping at different sections of the story
to answer our questions and ask new ones. Thinking about the story
in this way helps us develop a better understanding of what we read.
II. Modeling the Self-Questioning Strategy
The story chosen for the first class is The Wednesday Surprise
by Eve Bunting, New York: Clarion Books (1989). Multiple copies of
the book must be available. The Wednesday Surprise is a story
about a little girl and her grandmother who plan a wonderful surprise.
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