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Sample Essential Question Starters

Avoid questions with yes or no answers by asking questions such as:


What is?
How do?
How can?
What were?
What do you think?
What are the characteristics?
Why is?
In what ways?
Whatand how?
How did theand why did they?
Who are theand what did they?
Whenand why?
Whereand how?
Where are?
What are the relationships between?
How would you prioritize?
What would you recommend?
How would you assess?
What similarities and differences did you find that?
How would you classify?
How would you summarize?
What would result if?
Why do you think?
How would you rephrase?
Why do you think?
How would you describe?

Compiled by Dr. Diane Watkins

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