The Question is the Answer

Supporting Student-Generated Queries in Elementary Classrooms

By (author) Molly Ness

Publication date:

08 December 2015

Length of book:

142 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475816884

The Question is the Answer is a teacher’s guide to helping young readers generate text-based questions. The purpose of this book is to help teachers and parents value and promote student-generated questions to facilitate motivation, engagement, and cognitive development.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Inside Inquiry-Based Classrooms: The Research Basis for Question Generation
Chapter Two: Tried But True Questioning Strategies
Chapter Three: Questioning Inside Kindergarten Classrooms
Chapter Four: Questioning Inside First-Grade Classrooms
Chapter Five: Questioning Inside Second-Grade Classrooms
Chapter Six: Questioning Inside Third-Grade Classrooms
Chapter Seven: Questioning Inside Fourth-Grade Classrooms
Chapter Eight: Questioning Inside Fifth-Grade Classrooms
References

Brilliant. Molly Ness takes decades of research on the cognitive role of questioning and distills it into concrete plans for classroom practice. The Question is the Answer will bring greater curiosity, learning, and wonderment to any classroom.