Asking Good Questions

• Objectives: to exercise your questioning muscle
• to develop open-ended, non-leading questions

Bellwork:
Closed-ended vs. open-ended questions
Leading questions

Questioning Quick Write

• Think about the questioning lesson in history Wednesday.
• Reflect in writing for four minutes about the lesson. What stands out in your mind? What changed in your thinking? What questions do you still have?

Review Question Stems

• Who, what, when, where, why, how
• To what extent, in what ways
• Adding "successfully," "effectively," and "accurate", or "far" turns a "how" question into one that requires a judgment.

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Group Activity

• Select 2 household items
• Ask 3 open-ended, non-leading questions about each.
• Use who, what, when, where, why, how, to what extent, in what ways
• Adding "successfully," "effectively," and "accurate", or "far" turns a "how" question into one that requires a judgment.

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