Literacy+Tools-+Questioning

__**QUESTIONING LITERACY TOOLS:**__

All of these activities are literacy tools to help aid teachers in educating their students in questioning concepts.

__**Question Frames:**__

This activity provides the frameworks for developing higher level thinking questions. It aids students in challenging past their own educational limits. It would be especially great to use for gifted students.



__**Question Starters:**__

This activity provides many tips and tricks to help guide students into creating their own questions. This information could be a very valuable resource for your students and you could even make it into a bookmark if you wanted to so that they would consistently have it while they were reading.



__**Basic W's Question Mark:**__

When first getting your students used to the idea of questioning you can use this graphic organizer to help them remember the 5 basic W's of questioning: who, what, where, when, why, and then of course the final basic question of HOW! 

**Questioning Web For //A Dream of Freedom the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968//: **

Students will take a picture walk preview through //A Dream of Freedom the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968//. They will pay particular attention to the section titles and photographs taken within the book. The students will develop a topic that they wonder about. Students will develop six questions that directly correlate to this topic. While reading the student will read to see if he/she can find the answer his/her wonder questions. The student will journal about their findings after reading the book and respond to their questions.

