Reading: Questioning from Literacy Matters

http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/ question.htm

This is a terrific web site that has a lot of information on specific questioning techniques to use such as K-AW-L, Think Aloud, and DRT. In fact I believe every strategy mentioned in our text is on this site. There are also a lot of links that lead to many more resources.

What kind of Questions did you ask today?

http://www.sasaustin.org/library/Questioning.htm

This is a web site created by the librarian at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, TX. It explains and gives examples for the four types of questions: memory, divergent, convergent, and evaluative. The material is based on an article by Angela Ciardiello (1998).

Youth learn: The Art of Asking Good Questions

http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/teaching/questions.asp

This site describes factual, interpretive, and evaluative questions and gives tips on how to create these questions and how to lead a discussion to engage the students.

The Great Books Foundation

http://www.greatbooks.org/typ/

This is the web site for the Great Books that I mentioned in my research. I use these in my class and highly recommend them. Just in case you’d like to see what they are all about, I thought I’d include their website in my webliography.

http://talk.greatbooks.org/igb/

This link is to a shared inquiry tutorial that you might find interesting.

The Question Mark

http://questioning.org/

This website is created by Jamie McKenzie. She has authored a book on questioning and part of what is on the site is from the book. The May issue is on assessing growth in questioning. There are links to lessons using questioning.

How to Develop Questioning Strategies

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/ questioning_strategies.php

This article by Judie Haynes tells how classroom teachers can develop questioning strategies to help English language learners learn content. There are links to other helpful articles relating to ESL. It is a part of the “Everything ESL.net” web site.