I recently received an invitation to study writing and to
develop a teacher research project with the South Mississippi Writing Project
that is part of the National Writing Project.
One of the expectations of this fantastic study group was to create a
blog that highlights teacher research projects completed in our
classrooms. This summer I had planned to
do some independent studying to investigate questions, questioning techniques,
and questioning words to improve student achievement. I wanted to be better equipped to use
questions with my students and to share with the colleagues in my collaborative
team. This year I plan to start doing
some classroom research that explores this question first: What happens
when questioning becomes part of the writing process for young writers?
Starting the Research
The first few hours of researching this topic lead me to
discover that there are many different types of questions, different purposes
of questioning, and different ways to use questions in the teaching and
learning process. The troublesome
problem I am attempting to solve is to help my first grade students to produce
quality writing!
