What questions does the text answer?

1. What questions does the text answer? 2.4.08 Presented by Module 4A

2. The 7 High Reliability Literacy Teaching Procedures (HRLTPs) • This approach to literacy was developed by Prof John Munro • It identifies the strategies readers need to convert written text information to knowledge • It uses 7 High Reliability Literacy Teaching Procedures (HRLTPs) to teach readers how to comprehend and learn from written text

3. The HRLTPs Getting Knowledge Ready Vocabulary Reading Aloud What questions does the text answer? Summarise Paraphrasing Review

4. Why are we here today? What questions does the text answer?

5. Today’s Roadmap Why do we need to ask, “What questions does the text answer?” A toolbox of strategies Useful teaching procedures

6. What is the purpose of students asking questions? • Helps them analyse the sentence • Encourages students to be more active readers • Builds skill in answering questions • Develops efficiency in reading • Develops ability to align text to questions they seek to answer • Develops ability to segment text into ‘digestible chunks’

7. Today’s Roadmap Why do we need to ask, “What questions does the text answer?” A toolbox of strategies Useful teaching procedures

8. After reading aloud • After a student reads, teacher asks: • Does this answer a “who”/ “why” question etc. • Can you make this sentence the answer to a “who”/ “why” question etc

9. Using questions to make reading more productive

10. What do students need to learn? Who were the people that were entombed in the pyramids? Pyramids and Rock Tunnels From about 2000BC, the mummies and treasures of important people such as the pharaohs were usually entombed in pyramids. This practice lasted only about 500 years, though, because robbers were a major problem Where were the mummies of pharaohs entombed? What questions would I ask to get this as the answer?

11. How to scaffold students to ask questions of the text GKR Phase: anticipating/ focussing

12. How to scaffold students to ask questions of the text GKR Phase: anticipating/ predicting

13. Deciding the question a text answers What questions do these sentences answer? While Reading: summarising What is the main question that each paragraph answers?

14. Deciding the question a text answers Post Reading: mapping recollection

15. Deciding the question a text answers After Reading: matching activity Effectively, it seems, the pyramid served both as a gigantic training project and - deliberately or not - as a source of 'Egyptianisation'. The workers who left their communities of maybe 50 or 100 people, to live in a town of 15,000 or more strangers, returned to the provinces with new skills, a wider outlook and a renewed sense of national unity that balanced the loss of loyalty to local traditions. The use of shifts of workers spread the burden and brought about a thorough redistribution of pharaoh's wealth in the form of rations. Why did the building of pyramids develop the skills of the wider community? How did the building of pyramids redistribute wealth through the wider community? How did the building of pyramids affect the development of Egyptian nationalism?

16. Today’s Roadmap Why do we need to ask, “What questions does the text answer?” A toolbox of strategies Useful teaching procedures

17. A toolbox of strategies • Match sentences with questions • 5 Ws and I H questions • Write questions • Predicting questions • Reflection Activity Sheet what questions answer 17-4-08.doc

18. Why is it necessary to discuss the procedure with students? • Develop understanding of effective actions • Link productive actions with positive emotions • Work towards student independence

19. An NMR Literacy Improvement Initiative Teacher development presentation and PD materials by Northern Region teachers: • Alistair Forge • Yota Korkoneas • Lillian Leptos • Les Mitchell • David Mockridge • Effie Sgardelis • Jan Smith