QAR: Enhancing Comprehension and Test Taking Across Grades and Content Areas

The authors describe how Question Answer Relationships (QAR) can provide a framework for comprehensionMaking meaning from something that is heard (oral comprehension) or from print (reading comprehension). instruction with the potential of closing the literacyThe ability to understand oral language, read fluently, and write well. achievement gap. The vocabularyKnowledge of the meaning and pronunciation of words. of QAR — In the Book, In My Head, Right There, Think & Search, Author & Me, and On My Own — gives teachers and students a language for talking about the largely invisible processes that constitute listening and reading comprehensionThe ability to understand what you are reading. across grades and subject areas. Students recognize that they must first consider the question before developing an answer.