Question
and Answer Relationship (QAR)
Created by Raphael 1982,1984
Question-Answer Relationships is a way to help students
realize that the answers they seek are related to the type of question
that is asked; it encourages them to be strategic about their search
for answers based on an awareness of what different types of questions
look for. It is a strategy that equips students to tackle questions
effectively by teaching them to recognize different types of questions.
There are 2 types of questions Text Based and Knowledge Based and they
each have two components.
Text Based Questions:
Right There: questions that are formulated with words
taken right from the text. The answer is usually found in the same sentence.
Think and Search: questions that ask students to think
about the information they read and to search throughout the entire
passage to find information.
Knowledge Based Questions:
Author and You: The answer is not in the text, but
you still need information that the author has given you, combined with
what you already know, in order to respond to this type of question.
On my Own: The answer is not in the text and can be
based on the student’s background knowledge. These types of question
do not require reading the text at all.
Let Practice!
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1, 1955. That
was the day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they
would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted,
instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded. It was
not, however, the day that the movement to desegregate the buses started.
Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1943 when a black seamstress
named Rosa Parks paid her bus fare and then watched the bus drive off
as she tried to re-enter through the rear door, as the driver had told
her to do. Perhaps the movement started on the day in 1949 when a black
professor Jo Ann Robinson absentmindedly sat at the front of a nearly
empty bus, then ran off in tears when the bus driver screamed at her
for doing so. Perhaps the movement started on the day in the early 1950s
when a black pastor named Vernon Johns tried to get other blacks to
leave a bus in protest after he was forced to give up his seat to a
white man, only to have them tell him, "You ought to knowed better."
The story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is often told as a simple, happy
tale of the "little people" triumphing over the seemingly
insurmountable forces of evil. The truth is a little less romantic and
a little more complex.
- Right There: When did the boycott
officially start?
- Think & Search: What are the other instances
that could have triggered the movement?
- Author & You: What were some of the characteristics
of the people who took a stand against inequality?
- On My Own: Consider a time when you were faced
with a decision to stand for what you believed in?
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