[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 6 | February 15, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Questions are a common way for teachers to check for understanding, right? The answer we’re looking for is “yes.” Who hasn’t questioned a group of students to determine whether or not they understood the content? Unfortunately, not all questions are created equally. We propose four over-arching questions that can be used to scaffold students’ thinking about complex texts. You can tailor these questions to any book that your students are reading:

• What does the text say?
• How does the text work?

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