Oregon Educator Licensure Assessments (ORELA) Practice Exam

Which of the following strategies encourages students to ask questions about the text they are reading?

1. Visual representation

2. Predicting

3. Questions and questioning

4. Think-alouds

The correct answer is: Questions and questioning

The strategy that encourages students to ask questions about the text they are reading is centered around fostering a culture of inquiry. When students engage with questions and questioning as a strategy, they actively seek to understand the text more deeply. This approach encourages them to formulate their own questions related to comprehension, clarity, and connections to their own experiences or prior knowledge. By focusing on questions and questioning, students learn to see reading as an interactive process rather than a passive one. This not only enhances their critical thinking skills but also promotes engagement with the material, leading to a more meaningful learning experience. Encouraging this type of inquiry can help teach students to become more independent readers who take ownership of their learning through curiosity. Other strategies mentioned, such as visual representation, predicting, and think-alouds, certainly play valuable roles in reading comprehension but do not focus specifically on the act of questioning as a means to promote deeper exploration of the text. Visual representation aids in comprehension by allowing students to visualize ideas, predicting involves anticipating what might happen next in the text, and think-alouds help in modeling the cognitive processes involved in reading. However, none of these strategies specifically target the encouragement of formulating questions in the same direct way that the questions and questioning strategy does.