1. Questioning the Author • QtA is meant to help students understand what they read. • Students need to ask queries while they are reading text. • Some good questions that students need to ask while reading are: • What is the author trying to tell us here? • Why is the author trying to tell us this? • Teachers need to let the children talk more than they do during deep conversation about text. • Steps to follow when teaching QtA: • analyze the text, develop queries, have students read, ask queries, and discuss the text. • Valerie Adams