Definition:
QAR is a reading strategy used to increase student
comprehension.
Steps:
1. The first question answering strategy, Right There, is to find the words used to create the question and looks at the other words in that sentence to find the answer. The answer is within a single sentence.
2. The second QAR, Think and Search, also involves a question that has an answer in the story, but this answer requires information from more than one sentence or paragraph.
3. The third QAR , On My Own, represents a question for which the answer must be found in the reader’s own background knowledge.
4. The fourth QAR, Writer and Me, represents a slightly different interpretive question. The answer might be found in the reader’s own background knowledge, but would not make sense unless the reader had read the text.
5. Four principles of instruction when teaching QARs:
· Give immediate feedback
· Progress from shorter to longer texts
· Build independence by guiding students from group to independent activities
· Provide transition from the easier task to the more difficult
6.
Students should be taught the four strategies and how to tell
the difference. Research shows that understanding the
question/answer/relationships increases student achievement.
When to Use:
QAR would be appropriate to use when reading any fiction
or non-fiction text.
Resource:
Raphael, Taffy. “Teaching Question and Answer
Relationships, Revisited”, Reading Teacher, 39(6) 516-522.