Question and Answer ( QAR ) strategy

QAR or question-answer relationship is a strategy that helps students to comprehend the relation between different questions and answers.

If students are taught this strategy, they will feel confident to write answers.

There are many questions that are already in the textbook, while some have to write about their cognitive abilities.

This strategy helps to answer both types of questions very smoothly.

How is it helpful for the students?

a. It can improve student’s understanding capabilities.

b. It helps to teach the students how to find the in-text answers.

c. It also helps the students to develop better writing capacity on their own.

d. QAR strategy teaches the students to write constructive answers which are not directly written in their textbooks.

How to develop QAR potential among the students?

First of all, students need to understand different types of answer patterns. The answer patterns are:

Right There answers

These are the direct questions that are easily found in the text, and if the students follow the text correctly, they can clearly answer these types of questions.

It generally starts with who, what, where, when and how.

Think and answer questions

These answers are generally declarative and analytic students need to have a clear and proper concept regarding a topic.

They cannot write direct answers from the texts for this type of questions.
 

Author and you

This question deals with the information provided by the author, and students need to add their experience.

Students can write these answers if they are well-versed with their textbooks.

On my own

For these types of questions, students need to have the ability to write their answers from their prior knowledge and background study.

a. To start with the process of the QAR strategy, take an informative passage for the students.

Read the passage aloud to the students.

b. Prepare some predetermined questions to ask your students after you finish reading.

After narrating the passage to your students, read the question and prepare some sample answers with respect to the type of questions you are going to ask.

c. Now teach your students how to identify that information from the texts when you are done with the reading.