Teaching Tips: Questioning
These sites provide information to improve student’s questioning skills. Learn how to ask good questions and how those questions improve learning. Includes activities to practice questioning skills and examples of good questions.
Grades
- 3,
- 4,
- 5
Links
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What is a Good Inquiry Question?
Learn what a good inquiry question is and how to engage students inquiry questioning.
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Clarification versus Probing Questions
Understand the difference between questions of clarification and probing questions.
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Questioning Toolkit
This site provides several strategies for developing different types of questions. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Effective Classroom Questioning
This site provides information about using questioning techniques in the classroom. Levels of types of questions, planning questions, and methods for assessing questioning skills are included.
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Thinking About Thinking: What Makes a Good Question?
This lesson plan has activities to help students learn about good questions, Bloom’s taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills, as well as fat and skinny questions.
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That's A Good Question
Learn the components of a good question, the importance of asking good questions, and the way to articulate a good question.
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Asking Better Questions
Learn how effective questioning helps improve permanent memory. The connection questioning technique is included. NOTE: This site has a link that leads to a discussion board.
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The Art of Asking Good Questions
Read about teaching techniques for teachers about how to ask good questions. Includes different types of questions and questions for leading discussions.
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Tips for Teachers: Asking Good Questions
Here are some tips for teachers to use when asking students questions for different purposes.
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Asking Good Questions in Class
This site provides tips for teachers about asking good questions in classroom that promote critical thinking.
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