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PAGE  PAGE 18 Open or Closed – That is the Question Diane Harris University of Manchester Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 6-9 September 2006 Abstract This paper explores teachers’ use of questions with primary school children engaged in science activities. The research reports the profile of questioning strategies from a survey of 51 teachers in 102 lessons in Reception, Years 2 and 4: more ‘open’ questions are used with the older groups of children than the reception class children and in science activities rat