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Improving Questioning in The Knowledge Dimension

English

Factual Conceptual Procedural Metacognitive

Evaluate Why is that paragraph the Is the account believable? Why did you choose this If you were learning about
most informative? approach? this aspect of English again,
What influence has the what would you do
What specific vocabulary author had on other writers? Does a story always have to differently and why?
best describes the start at the chronological
character? What are the positive and beginning? What helps you learn in
the negative aspects of the English and why?
Why is the account report? Why is a non-chronological
convincing? report the best way to What do you find most
How would the story look present this information? difficult in English lessons and
Could you improve the text, from another characters’ why?
using the information you perspective? Can you defend this
have read? position? Which are the most useful
things to remember and
why?

Create Can you produce a fact file Can you explain spelling If you change from the What do you want to learn in
from your research? patterns using what you have active to the passive voice this unit of work and why is it
found out about morphology what is the impact? useful?
Can you prepare a five and etymology?
minute presentation? Is it ever ok to break ‘the Can you select work that
Can you use a story map / rules’ of grammar? demonstrates your learning?
How many words can you mountain to plan your work?
find with the same spelling Can you explain to a friend Where could you apply these
pattern? Can you choose the best how you inferred the skills in another subject or
approach to present the meaning from the text? context?
Can you give the opposite information?
view? How might the heroine from How will you develop your
How many ways can you a different story react in this English skills and knowledge
describe the character? situation? next?

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