A second reading strategy that helps students with comprehension is questioning. Questioning is a strategy or skill that is used in our everyday lives. They help us to focus on what is important. A proficient reader questions subconsciously as well as consciously. These questions help us to understand what the author's purpose is, the style of writing, and format of writing. Some questions are "thin" questions, where answers can easily be located within the text. Others are "thick", or deep, and require a degree of inference, prior knowledge, and synthesis to determine a possible answer.
Self-Questioning is the ongoing process of asking questions before,
during, and after reading that are used by a reader to understand text.
The questions posed are based on clues that are found in the text and
are generated to spark curiosity that focuses the reader's attention on
investigating, understanding, and connecting to the text. Self-questioning helps students
generate, think about, predict, investigate, and answer questions that
satisfy curiosity about what is being read.
A good reference that could be used to help students understand the concept of questioning when reading is
Slide share for questioning.
If one needs direction in teaching this strategy, a good site for lesson planning is
Comprehension Questioning notes.
A third site with lesson planning for questioning is
Questioning Lesson Plan.
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