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Ask Good Questions

Overview

Students practise asking questions that help them learn more.

Learning Objective
Students learn how to ask clear and useful questions.

Resources needed

  • None

Lesson stages

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  1. 1 Explain that good questions help us understand more.
  2. 2 Model a simple question and a more useful, detailed question.
  3. 3 Ask students what makes a question helpful.
  4. 4 Put students into pairs and give them a simple topic.
  5. 5 Ask them to create and ask questions to each other.
  6. 6 Encourage follow-up questions.
  7. 7 Walk around and support students.
  8. 8 Invite a few pairs to share their questions.
  9. 9 Finish by discussing which questions were most useful and why.

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Variations

  • Group discussion.
  • Topic-based questions.
  • Question chain.
More information

Teach: question, ask, why, how, more.

Provide question starters.

Can students ask clear and useful questions?

No materials needed.

Students ask very short or unclear questions.

Questioning supports learning and curiosity.