Powerful Q.T, Questioning Techniques, lead students to more complex thinking skills.
What?
Higher Level Thinking Skills means moving your questioning beyond recall and comprehension questions related to the material they are studying. You think beyond who,what,why,where and how or asking them to summarize details, facts or ideas. You rev up their thinking and ask them to apply, analyze, synthesize or evaluate their material.
Why?
You lead them to reach for deeper meaning. It encourages them to use their materials to make comparisons, classify information, elaborate and state their opinions based on what they have read or studied.
So?
Higher level questioning is one step in developing rigor in reading. If you add the use of multiple texts with varying difficulty, you begin reaching for early steps in the Common Core States Standards (CCSS), the new focus in national standards. And, you did it simply by increasing the complexity of the thinking skills you employ.