Book Club / Generating Quality Questions and Tasks

This term, we started our weekly book clubs!

We have been learning about the importance of generating quality questions and tasks to help us learn. 

See the video below to find out about the different levels of questioning and thinking. 

 Here are some examples of the types of questions and tasks that can be generated at each level. 

In Grade 4, we are challenging ourselves to work with level 2 and 3 questions/task in our inquiries. 

Please note that questions around similar topics have been color-coded. 

During our book club, we had a discussion about the following student-generated questions as we read Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake in connection to our inquiry into ancient civilisations: 

• Why doesn’t Pan like Mr. Kit?

• What would happen if the white-haired woman were part of the Cult of Osiris?

During the discussion, we try to be responsible and active communicators by using the sentence starters in the picture below as we reference the text. 

We keep track of the sentence starters we've used by moving them over to the left side.

Check out the video below to see our discussion in action!