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The Effects of Quality Questioning On Comprehension, Critical Thinking Skills and Recall of Fourth Grade Reading Students

Many students in my 4 grade reading class at Barneveld School struggle with comprehension skills and thinking critically when reading stories. Therefore they are unable to predict, make connections, visualize, or question a story they are reading. “Knowledge is produced by thought, analyzed by thought, comprehended by thought, organized, evaluated, maintained, and transformed by thought. Knowledge exists, properly speaking, only in minds that have comprehended and justified it through thought. And when we say think we mean think critically” (Paul, 1990, p. 2). My reading students have a hard time thinking about a story beyond its literal text. So, their knowledge of a story is very basic and this results in lower levels of comprehension of stories and a lack of retaining information. Students need to apply critical thinking skills while reading in order to comprehend and retain information about a story. Critical thinking skills can be established if the teacher asks quality questions during a reading