The Directed Questioning Activity for Subject Matter Text

The directed questioning activity (DQA) is a questioning strategy that provides scaffolded instruction to enhance students' higher-level comprehension skills. Designed to be used with expository text, the DQA promotes text comprehension through the use of advance cognitive organizers & ques...

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Published inJournal of reading Vol. 34; no. 8; pp. 606 - 612
Main Author Ryder, Randall James
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Reading Association 01.05.1991
Subjects
Cognitive models
Cognitive Processes
Comprehension
Content Area Reading
Directed Questioning Activity
Language comprehension
Language teachers
Learning Activities
Metacognition
Prehension
Prior learning
Questioning Techniques
Reading assignments
Reading Comprehension
Reading research
Reading Skills
Secondary Education
Students
Study Skills
Teachers
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Summary:The directed questioning activity (DQA) is a questioning strategy that provides scaffolded instruction to enhance students' higher-level comprehension skills. Designed to be used with expository text, the DQA promotes text comprehension through the use of advance cognitive organizers & question placement strategies. Through the presentation of directed questions & teachers' modeling of metacognitive strategies, students begin to acquire a process for self-regulation of expository text. Through the presentation of questions that seek to clarify, confirm, or infer meaning from the linking of prior knowledge to information presented in the text, students begin to acquire a process for higher-level thinking skills. 3 Figures, 20 References. AA
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ISSN:0022-4103