Page 10 - Improving Teacher Questioning
P. 10
Improving The Knowledge Dimension
Questioning in
Factual Conceptual Procedural Metacognitive
English
Who was the author of the When should you begin a What do you need to Is there a way of helping you
Remember book? new paragraph in your remember when proof- remember the tricky spellings?
writing? reading your written work?
What is an adverb? Can you use an acronym or
Can you think of another How can you check it is a full acrostic to help you?
Can you point to the example of a simile? sentence?
exclamation mark? Which other books have read
Which genre is this? Have you used ‘look – cover- that had a similar theme/
What other books are by this write-check’? style/ character?
author? What has happened in the
story so far? What have you improved, Have you written something
Can you recite…? based on the similar before?
marking/feedback?
Why do we use this Why is this word / sentence so Why are drafting and re- Can you predict what will
punctuation here? happen next in the story?
important? drafting important?
Can you say / write it in your
Understand How do you know who spoke How do you know this a pun? Can you summarise the plot? own words?
to the main character first?
What was the main idea or Can you explain your word What might help you to better
Which words give you the key theme the writer is trying to choices to a friend? understand this paragraph?
information? convey?
Can you identify the What can you infer from the
Can you give me a definition How do you know it is the past grammatical features of the text?
for this word? tense? writing?
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