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Question Answer Relationship Teaching Students Where to Seek for Answers to Questions QAR: What is it? A tool for clarifying how students can approach the task of reading text and answering questions. A strategy that helps students realize the need to consider both information in the text and information from their own background knowledge. Without QAR, students over rely on information from the text or from their own background knowledge. QAR: Why use it? It shows the relationship between questions and answers. It categorizes different types of questions It helps students analyze, comprehend, and respond to text concepts. It refutes the common misconception that “all answers” can be found in the text. QAR: View Worksheet IN THE BOOK Right There Questions Think and Search IN MY HEAD Author and You On My Own Flow of Q.A.R. through the reading cycle where are students most likely to encounter each type of question? Author and Me On my own BEFORE READING Author and me Right there DURING READING Think and Search Author and me AFTER READING Think and Search Activity 1: An introductory activity Give students a blank sheet of plain white paper. Have them fold it into four equal squares Label the entire poster Q.A.R. at the top. In each square, write one type of Q.A.R. think and search, right there, etc. In each square, have them write the definition of that type of Q.A.R. and then draw a picture to represent that type of Q.A.R.. For example, a picture of a thought bubble and a magnifying glass for think and search. Call on different students and ask them what they drew for each and why Activity 2: Q.A.R. Flash Cards Have students create Q.A.R. flash cards. They take index cards and put one type of Q.A.R. on each card. Have various sample questions available and read them to the class or have students read them. When they know what type of Q.A.R. it is, have them hold up that card. You will know if they understand based on the card they hold up. If th