QAR (Question-

Answer
Relationship)       
Enhancing comprehension and test taking across grades and content areas

Written by: Taffy E. Raphael and Kathryn H. Au

Presented by: Samantha Bulewich
Gap achievement
The gap achievement between mainstream students and students of
diverse backgrounds is a CONCERN.

Teachers often continue teaching lower level skills to those who have
lower level skills.

Teachers are often unsure of how to teach different comprehension

strategies. 
QAR
Strongly believes QAR provides a framework that offers teachers a
straightforward approach for reading comprehension instruction. 
Goal is to potentially and eventually close the literacy achievement gap. 
Address four problems of practice:
1) The need for a shared language to make visible the largely invisible processes underlying reading
and listen comprehension.
2) The need for a framework for organizing questioning activities and comprehension instruction
within and across grades and school subjects.
3) The need for accessible and straightforward whole-school reform for literacy instruction oriented
toward higher level thinking.
4) The need to prepare students for high-stakes testing without undermining a strong focus on higher
level thinking with text.
QAR Vocabulary
In The Book In My Head
(locate/recall)       (interpret/integrate/infer)

Right There Author & Me

Think & Search On My Own
 
In The Book & In My Head
What questions to ask?
In The Book:
“What caused the visitors to look on in horror?”

In My Head:
“What do you think makes a hero an unlikely one?”
QAR subcategories
Once students are comfortable with answering two different QAR
questions – In The Book and In My Head. They can learn the new
concepts of “Right There and Think & Search” and “Author & Me and
On My Own”

Usually for longer passages (3-5 paragraphs)

Students will be able to see the difference