Self-Questioning Strategy

The Self-Questioning Strategy helps students create their own motivation for reading. Students create questions in their minds, predict the answers to those questions, search for the answers to those questions as they read, and paraphrase the answers to themselves.

SIM Mnemonic Learning Devices used in this Strategy: ASK-IT helps students improve their reading comprehension and active engagement with text.

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Examples

SQ: Example Progress Chart and Score Sheets
SQ: Example Progress Chart and Score Sheets

Group Score Sheet p. 96 Individual Score Sheet p. 94 Progress Chart p. 95

Poster / Visual Aid

SQ: Classroom Poster
SQ: Classroom Poster

Other resources

SQ: Affirmations
SQ: Affirmations

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SQ: Assignment Sheet (Fillable PDF)
SQ: Assignment Sheet (Fillable PDF)

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SQ: Attend to Clues
SQ: Attend to Clues

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SQ: Building a Knowledge Base
SQ: Building a Knowledge Base

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SQ: Example Individual Score Sheet
SQ: Example Individual Score Sheet

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SQ: Example Questions
SQ: Example Questions

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SQ: Example Questions and Predictions
SQ: Example Questions and Predictions

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SQ: Generalization Stages
SQ: Generalization Stages

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SQ: Group Score Sheet (fillable PDF)
SQ: Group Score Sheet (fillable PDF)

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SQ: Identifying and Talking about Answers
SQ: Identifying and Talking about Answers

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SQ: Individual Score Sheet (fillable pdf)
SQ: Individual Score Sheet (fillable pdf)

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SQ: Model Passage 1
SQ: Model Passage 1

Chocolate Moose? p. 93

SQ: Model Passage 2
SQ: Model Passage 2

Sophie's Echo

SQ: Overview Crash Course Handout for Students
SQ: Overview Crash Course Handout for Students
SQ: Progress Chart
SQ: Progress Chart

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SQ: Requirements fo Questions, Predictions, and Answers
SQ: Requirements fo Questions, Predictions, and Answers

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SQ: Seven Types of Questions
SQ: Seven Types of Questions

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SQ: Strategy Management Chart (Fillable pdf)
SQ: Strategy Management Chart (Fillable pdf)

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SQ: Strategy Step Sequence
SQ: Strategy Step Sequence

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SQ: Strategy Steps
SQ: Strategy Steps

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SQ: Verbal Passage Checklist (fillable pdf)
SQ: Verbal Passage Checklist (fillable pdf)

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SQ: What do you wonder?
SQ: What do you wonder?

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SQ: Written Worksheet (pdf fillable)
SQ: Written Worksheet (pdf fillable)

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