1. Jennifer Evans
Assistant Director ELA
St. Clair County RESA
Evans.jennifer@sccresa.org
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2. Agenda
Daily 5 / Café
Danielson Framework
Domain 3
Other
Comprehension/Intervention
Questioning strategies
WriteWell© Bookmark
Using Daily 5, Danielson, and
Bloom’s, with Current
Materials
Bloom’s

4. Daily 5 / CAFE
• Daily 5 Structure: Model, Model, Model
Read to Self
Spelling /
Word Work
Working on
Writing
Read to
Someone
Listen to
Reading

5. CAFÉ
Comprehension
Accuracy
Fluency
Expand
Vocabulary

8. Danielson Domain #3
• Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques

9. Too Much Teacher Talk?
In one study of 1,151 classroom discussions
occurring in over 200 classrooms:
– 93.31% (1074 discussions) were completely
monologic (teacher-centered) in nature
– Of the 6.69% (77) that included “dialogic
episodes” (moments when students directed the
conversation), those episodes lasted for an
average of 15 seconds
(Nystrand et al., 2003)

10. Goal: Comprehension
• Strategy:
– Ask Questions Throughout the Reading Process (Café)
– Think along questioning – example from story “Fire!”
comprehension card 21
– Question – Answer – Relationship (QAR) (STARS)
– Three Types of Questions:
ight There (The answer is in the text,
easy to find.)
Think and Search (The answer is in the
story, but you need to put together
different story parts to find it.)
On My Own (The answer is not in the
story. You use your own experience to
answer the question.)
Project S.T.A.R.S. Strategies
- Request, Thick and Thin, Nonfiction, Open-ended
- Socratic Circles

11. Harcourt – Trophies Example
• Read First paragraph of “Old Notch”
– Ask: How long of a ride in the car would it be to
go to the store?
(one hour)
– How do you know? (read it right there in the text)
– Why do you think someone would want to live
that far away from a store?
– How do you know? (in my head)
Two main places to find answers

12. Open Ended questions - Brainstorming
• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/anal
yzing-text-brainstorming

13. “Students in classrooms with high academic
demands and more emphasis on discussion-based
approaches show higher end-of-year literacy
performance.”
(Applebee et al., 2003, p. 717)

14. What is a Socratic Circle?
A constructivist strategy in
which participants engage
in a conversation to
collectively seek a deeper
understanding of complex
ideas.

15. WriteWell: Socratic Questions
• ReadWell Unit of Study:

16. Socratic Circle
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDP75I1b
5Do

17. Socratic Questions for “Fire!”
After reading “Fire!”, do you think you
would like to be a firefighter? (p 515
Open-ended response)
What is the difference between
firefighters in big cities and firefighters in
many small towns? (p 507 Summarize)
Evaluate “Question of the Day” to use

18. Grade Level Planning
1. Look at your next story
2. Decide on a Questioning Strategy to use
(QAR, Socratic, ReQuest, Thick and Thin,
Nonfiction, Open-ended, etc.)
3. Create at least 3 questions, at various
levels, you would like the students to discuss.
4. Plan when to implement the lesson
5. Reflection?

19. Questions?