QAR

__**QAR**__ (Question-Answer-Relationships)

QAR is a strategy to help students understand that reading requires thinking and that there are different ways to think about different kinds of questions. It is a research-based comprehension strategy designed to give teachers and students common vocabulary for talking about four different kinds of questions. QAR also helps students to develop awareness of their own cognitive processes while answering questions.

Here is what research has to say about questioning in the classroom.
 * Teachers ask 40 to 60 questions per hour and most of those questions are literal.
 * Forty percent of classroom instructional time is spent on asking and answering combined (by teachers and students).
 * Students who ask and answer questions they have generated themselves learn through metacognition. They are actively thinking about their thinking when they can create their own questions.
 * The one asking the questions is actually the active learner, so teachers help students learn more when they show their students how to formulate and answer their own questions. In other words, he who asks, learns.
 * All students need opportunities to process information at the highest levels they can.
 * According to NAEP, roughly three-quarters of standardized reading assessment questions require students to answer high-level thinking skills.

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