Standard 1: Speaking and Listening

Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing.

2.1.R.2 Students will ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify about information presented orally, through text or other media to confirm understanding.

Student Actions 

Teacher Actions 

To better understand a topic, text, or other media:

• Students will participate in question and answer activities.

• Students will ask questions to seek help.

• Students will ask questions to get information.

• Students will ask and answer questions to clarify understanding.

• Teachers provide opportunities for students to ask and answer questions.
• This can be done by using question word stems, such as “who”, “what”, “why” and answer probes such as “Yes, I do… or No, I don’t…”
• Video demonstration of teaching students to ask questions
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to answer questions given by the teacher.
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to generate questions about a topic.
• Teachers monitor, provide prompting and opportunities for students to receive feedback when developing or answering questions.
• Teachers explain and model how to ask questions to seek help during class discussions, while interacting with a text or different types of media.
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to generate questions to seek help about a topic.
• Teachers monitor, provide prompting and opportunities for students to receive feedback while asking questions to seek help.
• Teachers explain and model how to ask questions to get information during class discussions, while interacting with a text or different types of media.
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to generate questions to get information about a topic.
• Teachers monitor, provide prompting and opportunities for students to receive feedback while asking questions to get information about a topic.
• Teachers explain and model how to ask questions to clarify understanding during class discussions, while interacting with a text or different types of media.
• Teachers provide opportunities for students to generate questions to clarify understanding about a topic.
• Teachers monitor, provide prompting and opportunities for students to receive feedback while asking questions to clarify understanding.
• Teachers provide aK/W/L chart to complete in a whole group setting.  
• Students to provide statements about what they think they know
• Compose questions of what they would like to learn.  
• After the study, complete the chart through class discussion or independently noting what students learned during the unit.
• Revisit questions to confirm understanding and clarify misconceptions.

Supporting Resources 

Teacher Insights 

Reading Recovery Article Introduction to Asking Questions

• When students are using active listening skills consistently, they are working on skills forming questions and providing answers to seek help or find information.   
• Students need support and modeling to develop questioning skills.
• Revisiting questions will help students confirm understanding.

Due to recursive nature of the standards, it is essential that teachers are aware of how all objectives within and between strands work together for optimal instruction.