Question+Answer+Relationship

Question Answer Relationship by Gina Elias

Question Answer Relationship (QAR) is a questioning strategy that emphasizes that a relationship exists between the question, the text, and the background of the reader. In this strategy, students are taught to use four question/answer relationships (QAR’s) to find the information they need to answer the question.
 * What is Question Answer Relationship?**


 * Why use Question Answer Relationship?**

It can improve students reading comprehension. It teaches students how to ask questions about their reading and where to find the answers to them. It helps students to think about the text that they are reading and beyond it too. It inspires them to think creatively and work cooperatively while challenging them to use higher level thinking skills.

• **Right There** are the answers to the questions that are textually explicit and the answer is right there in the text. (literal) • **Think and Search** requires the students to search for ideas in the text that are related to one another and put these ideas together to answer the question. (inferential) • **Author and You** is the answer that is not in the text and the students need to think about what they know and put it together with what the author says to get the answer. (evaluation) • **On Your Own** is the answer that comes from the student with not much help from the author, and the text gets the student thinking. Although, the student must use what they already know to answer the question. (application)
 * The Four Types of Comprehension Questions:**


 * How to use Question Answer Relationship.**

1. Explain the concept’s of Question Answer Relationship to the students, possibly using a chart to show the four types and the two broad categories of information sources: in the text and in your head.

2. Have students read several short passages. Follow each reading with one question from each of the four QAR categories. Discuss the differences between the different types of questions and answers.

3. Give students short passages along with questions, answers and identified Question Answers Relationships. Discuss why a question and answer pair is one Question Answer Relationship and not another. Then give students passages with questions and answers and have them identify the Question Answer Relationship. Finally, give students passages with questions and have them decide which Question Answer Relationship strategy to use to find the answers.

4. Give students a longer passage with up to six questions (at least one from each category). Students can work in groups to decided the Question Answer Relationship category and answer for each question.

Reference Raphael, T. (1982). "Question-answering strategies for children." __The Reading Teacher__,1982 36(2), pp.186-191.

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