Lesson Plan

Parrot in the Oven: Request Strategy

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Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida is used in an activity that models how to develop questions to aid in comprehension of a text.

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Instructional Ideas
  • Provide readers with a questioning model like QAR or Bloom's taxonomy
Classroom Considerations
  • The activity assumes that class members will be able to distinguish among different types of questions
Pros
  • The provided questions focus on important themes in the novel
Cons
  • No attempt is made to identify for readers different types of questions