FNO Press
From Now On: A Questioning Toolkit
What exactly is a "questioning tool kit"? This resource provides techniques for asking essential questions, hypothetical questions, telling questions, planning questions and organizing questions.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Think Alouds
Think Alouds help students learn to monitor their thinking as they read an assigned passage. Students are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while reading. This process reveals how much they...
Other
Storytelling to Assess Speaking and Listening
An effective use of rubrics that encourages the student storyteller how to determine if his/her audience is listening. Learn about the different listening skill rubrics, storytelling rubrics and a self-assessment guide that asks the...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Interviewing
Learn about different types of interviews, how to set up an interview, and important tips to remember during an interview.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: How to Listen Better
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Slick Little Robot
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Ataka
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Other
Learning Farm: Compare and Contrast Informational Texts
In this narrated tutorial, students are presented with information about first and third points of view, then read two passages about the same event and answer questions that compare how the topic is presented. After completing the...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Speaking and Listening: Respond to Ideas and Questions
Excellent guidelines for how to ask and answer questions in order to have a productive group discussion.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: From Carrots to Renovations: Reading Comprehension
A reading passage with five multiple-choice questions to assess comprehension.
Other
Monster.com: The Most Difficult Interview Questions
This resource provides users with difficult interview questions and possible answers. In addition, there are links to related topics.
Other
Medium: Helping Students Ask Better Questions by Creating a Culture of Inquiry
We want to see kids asking tons of questions. This is how students grow into creative, critical thinkers. This article by John Spencer gives multiple ways teachers can foster an environment in which students feel comfortable asking...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Teaching Students How to Ask Productive Questions
This article gives insight into how to improve engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking by teaching students the process of asking insightful questions. Included is a comprehensive, metacognitive framework of questioning skills...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Examples of Open Ended and Closed Ended Questions
Explains the difference between open and closed questions. Gives examples and situations where each might be used.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Come Prepared for Discussions
This is a collection of 14 discussion opportunities. Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.
Other
Prezi: Implicit and Explicit Questions
This Prezi provides Implicit and Explicit questions and practice activities.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question the Author (Qt A)
Question the Author (QtA) is a comprehension strategy that requires students to pose queries while reading the text in order to challenge their understanding and solidify their knowledge (Beck et al., 1997).
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
Other
Usa Today: Usa Weekend/small Talk Is a Big Deal
Article on the importance of small talk, based on information from Bernardo Carducci, author of "the Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk." At the end of the article you'll find "5 steps to making smart small talk." It also...
Other
Iseesam: Comprehension Questions
This PDF explains what students are asked to do when answering Literal, Inference, and Evaluative comprehension questions.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Explicit and Implicit Questions
A slide show with six slides on asking and answering implicit and explicit questions within a text.
Other
Rmit University: Rmit Counselling Service: Talking to People [Pdf]
This material on people skills discusses how to develop and maintain people skills. It also contains a section in the middle about the importance of receiving messages (listening) and common barriers to doing so.
Quia
Quia: Reading for Facts
This interactive quiz assesses students' reading comprehension skills of informational text passages. Students will read 30 short passages and answer question about a detail for each.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Learn how to identify the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.