SESSION: SELF-QUESTIONING FACTUAL READING

1. to re-introduce and adapt self-questioning as an appropriate comprehension strategy to apply when reading informational text.
   
   
2. to learn through reading.
   
   
3. to make links between historical fiction as a genre and informational text.

1. Provides a context for the new focus on reading factual material by explaining how reading informational material differs from reading fiction:
   
   Reading factual information is different f am reading stories. For one thing, we read stories for pleasure and recreation, but we read factual material for different reasons. We want to "find out" something - we are taking a course, studying for a test, or we just want to know....
   
   There are other differences, too. In factual material there is a lot of information contained in a small amount of print. In other words, there is more information to remember than in stories. Factual material is also organized differently.
   
   
2. Makes connections between using the Self-Questioning strategy in the reading of stories to using Self-Questioning in the reading of factual material by announcing:
   
   When we read stories, we ask ourselves questions BEFORE reading, DURING reading and AFTER reading The Self-Questioning strategy can be used with factual information, too. It helps us look for information and helps us understand and remember the information we read. But we need to change the questions we ask.
   
   
3. Introduces adaptations of the Self-Questioning strategy for reading informational text by presenting and reading the accompanying chart (see Box 26 and Appendix E).