Standard: Fostering Literacies to Empower Life-Long Learners
Theme: Critical Literacy
Growth Phase: Evolving
Growth Indicator: Students are critical consumers of information and media by developing questions before, during and after reading and viewing.
Noted educator and LLC leader Koechlin provides background and innovative, encouraging strategies to use for the critical importance of nurturing students in the art of questioning. Koechlin shares a demonstration of a teacher-librarian and 2nd grade students using a Q-Wheel (an important and effective tool developed by Koechlin and Zwaan to help students formulate good questions) and also outlines the building of a Q-Chart in google.
Koechlin, C. (2019, March 18). How Do We Nurture Student Questioning? Canadian School Libraries Journal, 3 (1). Retrieved from http://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/how-do-we-nurture-student-questioning/