Practicing thick and thin questions
I can ask and answer thick and thin questions.
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General
In this lesson, students will review thick and thin questions. They will then read the passage and answer questions, as well as make their own.
Standards
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1
Learning objective
Students will be able to ask and answer thick and thin questions.
Introduction
Students will look at a picture of a waterfall and ask and answer questions about it with a partner. Explain why being able to decipher between thick and thin questions is important.
Instruction
Students will review thin and thick questions. Ask students to give examples of each.
Next, they will read a passage about habitats for native and non-native animals. They will match the question stems of thin questions to the correct phrases. They will also answer the thin and thick questions. Then, they will create one thin question and one thick question about the passage and read them to a partner.
Quiz
Students will answer ten questions in which they must identify thick and thin questions as well as determine characteristics of thick and thin questions.
Closing
Students will recall what they learned:
- What are thick questions?
- What are thin questions?
- Why is it important to ask and answer thick and thin questions?
Students will listen to questions and classify them as thick or thin questions.
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