alternative education

Teaching Writing and Reading for Students with Challenges
Questioning Techniques that Inspire Student Writing

Angela Rickford, Ph.D.
Professor, Special Education
San Jose State University

~ Module 17, Session 4~
Activity 2

Directions: Working individually first, respond to the question below. Then share your responses with your small group. Look for areas of similarity and differences in your responses.


Generate a question that aptly represents each of the four questioning categories--General, Literal Meaning, Interpretive Reading, and Creative Reading. You may base your questions on the Tree-Children story, or on any text you wish.

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