Introduction to Question-Answer Relationship for STAFF – Whole School Reading Strategy

QAR is a reading strategy that can be implement as a whole school program, as QAR can be used for any text type in any subject for all year levels.

QAR enables teachers to provide higher order comprehension question for any texts studied in their subject. It’s perfect for time poor staff and allows staff to create differentiated comprehension activities.

The resource includes:
- PowerPoint introduction/training lesson
- Practice activity
- Training script
- Poster 1 highlights the 4 levels of comprehension questions and where the
student will find the answer.
- Poster 2 and 3 highlight and prompt student as to where to locate answers to comprehension questions and develop these skills so they can apply them in other settings.
- Poster 4 highlights the types of questions for each level and how to answer the questions from each level.

The PowerPoint is to introduce the concepts of QAR to staff and the posters are designed to be general so that they can be used with any text studied in any subject. The idea is that you have a ‘go to’ set of engaging and differentiated questions and comprehension prompts, saving you valuable prep time and incorporating high quality learning activities every time!

This resource has been thoroughly designed so no extra prep or specialised ability is needed!

*Posters: one file has UK/AU spelling and the other file has US spelling.

QAR introduction lesson for students can be found here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/introduction-to-question-answer-relationship-for-students-reading-strategy-any-text-any-subject-11338638

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