3006 Week 8: QAR Strategy by Tori Hughes

How did the teacher help the students understand the following QAR strategies:

tghughes — 2025-09-24 19:24:14 UTC

1. On my own, in my head

2. Between the Author and Me

Hattie Wommack

hattiewommack — 2025-09-28 18:01:14 UTC

The teacher in the video explained the QAR strategies by showing her students how to think about where their answers come from when asked a question. For On My Own/In My Head, the teacher asked, “How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?” The teacher explained that even if someone had never read the book, they could still answer that question because the answer comes from their own thoughts and feelings.

For Between the Author and Me, the teacher used the example, “Why did Lewis and Clark hire Charbonneau on the condition that he brings Sacagawea?” The teacher showed that this answer comes from the book, since the author wrote about it, but also from the student's own reasoning. Later, the teacher asked, “How did Sacagawea help them accomplish their mission?” and pointed out that this question could fit in both categories because students need to use what the author wrote and their own thinking to respond.

The teacher reminded her students in the video that it’s okay to disagree when deciding which type of QAR a question belongs to. What matters most is practicing how to think about the relationship between questions and answers.

Katelyn Crook

2025-09-29 18:02:11 UTC

The teacher helped her students understand QAR strategies by modeling the differences between “On My Own” and “Author and Me” questions. To demonstrate “On My Own”, she asked a question whose answer was not in the passage, then paused and said “I have to go into my head here,” making it clear that she was relying on her own experiences. In contrast, when modeling “Author and Me,” she posed a question that required interpretation, returned to a sentence in the text to highlight a clue, and explained that she needed to combine that hint with what she already knew to construct a complete answer. By walking students through these think-alouds, she clearly illustrated how each strategy works and how they differ from one another.

2025-09-29 20:35:45 UTC

The teacher in the helped students understand the QAR strategy "On my own, in my head" by asking "How would would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?" She points out that this question could be answered without even reading the book. Younger students could answer this question as well. The teacher explains that these questions come from our own thinking, feelings, or prior knowledge (which is why it is called "in my head"). She also tell students that the question can be answered more deeply by reading the book. The teacher helps students understand the QAR strategy "Between the Author and Me" by asking, "Why did Lewis and Clark hire Charbonneau on the condition that he brings Sacagawea?" She explains to the students that this question requires you to read the book for an answer. The teacher did a great job providing students examples of both. She also clearly compared the two strategies. Lastly, she allowed students to debate or have discussions to practice deciding what questions come from each strategy.

Noelle Barnette

noellebarnettect — 2025-09-30 17:29:39 UTC

The teacher helped the students understand QAR strategies in multiple ways. For the On My Own / In My Head strategy, the teacher asked a personal, open-ended question. The teacher asked, “How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?” Students didn't need to read the book to answer the question. For the "Between the Author and Me" strategies, the teacher used a text-dependent example. The teacher asked, “Why did Lewis and Clark hire Charbonneau on the condition that he bring Sacagawea?” For the students to answer this question, they need to reflect on their own thinking and use the information from the book.

Maddie Forbes

2025-09-30 18:09:36 UTC

The teacher in this QAR Reading Strategy video helped the students understand the strategies (1) On my own, in my head and (2) Between the Author and Me, by prompting the students to really ask themselves logical questions. The teacher encouraged students to think for a moment to differentiate the difference. She also asked the rhetorical question, "...is it think-and-search, or is it author and you." In the first half of the video, the teacher also asked two distinct types of questions and gave examples. For On my own, in my head strategy, the teacher stated that anyone can be able to answer that question regardless of if they have read the book or not. However, when the teacher asked a text-specific question, the students were able to identify that was a between the author and me question.

Brooklyn Karry

2025-09-30 20:06:20 UTC

The teacher in the video explained the QAR strategies by demonstrating for her students how to think about where their answers came from when asked a question. For the On My Own/ In My Head, the teacher asked "How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?" The teacher then explained that even if you had never read the book you would still be bale to answer the question. because the answer comes from their own thoughts and feelings. For the Between the Author and Me the teacher used "Why did Lewis and Clark hire Charbonneau on the condition that he brings Sacagawea?" The teacher then showed that the answer to the question comes from the book since the author wrote it and also from the student because of their reasoning. The teacher also reminded her students that it is okay to disagree when deciding which type of QAR a question belongs to. It matters more if you are practicing how to think about the relationship between questions and answers.

Emily McLaughlin

2025-10-01 03:18:25 UTC

The teacher in the video explains what the QAR strategy is and how it is used. She also reassures them that the answers may not be perfect, and it takes some thinking to remember the difference!

For the first part of the strategy (On my own, in my head), she explained how anyone could answer that with little to no prior knowledge/not having read the book, even lower grades. She also pointed to her head while saying, "It's in my head." This provides students with a visual to go along with it. She gave a question that fit that strategy, as well. She asked for student responses, which allowed them to be engaged with the lesson.

For the second part (Between the Author and Me), she provided a more in-depth question that went along with the book they read. The students were able to acknowledge that they would need the information they learned from the book to answer this question.

Overall, she walked her students through the strategy, and they were able to use their prior and current understandings to answer the questions!

Setareh Pishdad

2025-10-01 23:54:44 UTC

The teacher in the video shown explained the different QAR strategies by explaining and showing her students how to think about where their answers come from. For "On my own, in my head" she had asked the question, "How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?" This question came from our own thinking and some prior knowledge. The answer is build up of of ones own experience. For "Author and Me", a more in depth and specific question in relation to the text. For students to respond and answer that question, they would need to use the text to support them.

Regan Muldowney

2025-10-01 23:57:12 UTC

The teacher begins by explaining what the QAR is and how students can use it for open discussions. After, she stated the question, "How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?" Even without reading the book, the teacher was able to answer the question herself by digging into her own feelings and thoughts. Before student response, they were asked to think to themselves for a minute. The teacher explains to the students that although they may know the information from the book, they will still use the knowledge that is in their head. She emphasizes the importance of understanding the relationship between questions and answers more than the factual information.

Kristyn batten

2025-10-02 18:55:44 UTC

The teacher helped students understand On My Own/In My Head questions by showing that the answers don’t come from the text but from their own ideas and experiences. She modeled how to think and answer using what they already know without looking back in the book. For Between the Author and Me questions, she explained that students need both the author’s words and their own thinking. She showed examples by reading a passage, asking a question, and then thinking aloud to combine clues from the text with her own knowledge, guiding students to do the same.

Cayla Gibson

2025-10-02 21:29:08 UTC

The teacher in the video helped her students understand QAR strategies by giving examples of the thinking process required to answer questions. For on my own, in my head, the teacher explained to the students that the answer was from prior knowledge. The teacher gave an example where students were able to quickly respond using their own emotions, experiences, and ideas to come up with a response to the question. For the strategy, between me and the author, the teacher used an example by asking a question where students would be required to look back into a text in order to provide an answer. The students and the author become a team by using the students' prior knowledge and the author's textual information to answer the questions. The teacher was able to help the students understand the QAR strategies by providing examples that the students could connect to and see the difference in thinking required to answer each type of question.

Lizbeth Olvera

olveralizbeth1996 — 2025-10-03 11:58:49 UTC

In the video, the teacher introduces the QAR strategy, helping students recognize that some questions require personal ideas, while others need a combination of text evidence and their thoughts. She demonstrates this by asking a question unrelated to the text, sharing her thought process and stating, “I’m thinking from my own head.” She guides students to connect the text with their own understanding, explaining how to use text details along with personal insights for their responses. The teacher emphasizes that answers come from both the text and their own thinking.

Kara Johnstone

2025-10-03 15:00:49 UTC

In the video, the teacher introduced the QAR strategies by modeling for the students of what it was like to think on my own and in my head. . For the On My Own/In My Head, She explained that students didn’t need to read the book to answer because the response comes from their personal thoughts and emotions. She also made it clear to the students that it was okay to rely on their own experiences for this. When the teacher modeled the Author and Me she asked a question that would require to go back to the text. She modeled to go back to the text and pointed out a sentence as a clue. She modeled clearly what it was like to use each strategy and how they are different from each other.

Bella Ford

2025-10-03 16:55:28 UTC

The teacher helped her students understand QAR by modeling "on my own/in my head" strategy. The teacher was asking a personal but open ended question to the students. Se asked the question, "How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?" She brings to the students attention that she could've also answered this question having not even read the book. When modeling a "author and me" the teacher asked a question that required interpretation from the students. This question asked was more in line with the book that was read.

Katherine Kirkbride

2025-10-05 00:50:02 UTC

By watching the lesson, I have seen the teacher give the students great thought-provoking questions and give answers of the two prompts to help them understand the questions and gain thinking. The way that the teacher helped the students understand the QAR strategy, "On my own, in my head" she asked the students questions that could be something that is easy for the students to think about and can have a better understanding and know the answer before going deep into the topic. With the strategy, "Between the Author and me" the teacher gave them an understanding that this is something that they gain when they have seen the information and can dive into the content. This is where the student would need to know the material when answering the question. The teacher gave them great examples and advice when using these strategies because she introduced the content and how they would use the strategies and gave them well thought out examples. Then, had them show her that they understand the strategies. Overall, I feel that this strategy was an insightful way of teaching the students and helping them understand what they need to do and how they can answer the question and give detail and understanding what they are answering.

Aline Yerena

agyere0314 — 2025-10-05 03:17:18 UTC

The teacher helped students understand "On my own, in my head" by showing that some answer don't come from the book, but rather from what we already know. She encouraged students to share their own thoughts and experiences first, helping them see that their background knowledge plays an important role in comprehension.

For "Between the Author and Me", she modeled how to mix what the author says with what we already understand. Her think alouds and guiding questions helped students connect the text to their own ideas in order to make inferences.

I liked how she made the lesson interactive and showed that reading isn't just about answering the teachers questions but thinking with the author in order to build meaning.

Julia Harris

jkharr5107 — 2025-10-05 20:39:46 UTC

The teacher in the video explained the QAR strategies to the students very well. She started off by explaining how some questions we are able to answer based on opinion or previous knowledge (on my own, in my head). She explained it by comparing their class to the younger class down the hall. She then asked a question that they had to have read the book to answer. This helped them decipher between the different kinds of questions. She then asked a question that combined both of them. She explained it by talking about how you had to have read the book and use opinions to come up with the answer. This is the author and me question.

Mallory Glaze

gmallory711 — 2025-10-05 22:25:55 UTC

The teacher helped students understand the QAR strategies by showing and explaining to students the ways questions can be answered. For 'on my own, in my head', she modeled this strategy by asking a question that was relevant to the story but couldn't be found in the text. She emphasized that students should think about what they already know, and the fact that some questions don't require you to have read the book. For the 'author and me' strategy, the teacher explained that students would need to refer to the authors words, as well as use their own thinking. She explained that those questions are a mix of what you already know and what is in the book.

Madeline Parker

2025-10-05 22:51:10 UTC

The teacher introduced QAR strategies by modeling how to tell the difference between “On My Own” and “Author and Me” questions. To show what an “On My Own” question looks like, she asked something that couldn’t be answered from the passage and said, “I have to think about this in my own head,” showing that the answer came from her own knowledge and experiences. For “Author and Me,” she asked a question that required some interpretation, pointed out a clue from the text, and explained how she used that clue along with what she already knew to form her answer. Through these think-aloud examples, she made it easy for students to see how each question type works and how they differ.

Torrie Reed

2025-10-06 01:39:20 UTC

The teacher in the video does a good job explaining the QAR in the beginning. She makes sure that her students know their answers may not be perfect and thats okay. She was able to show her students how to think about where their answers come from.

For the ON MY OWN/IN MY HEAD strategy she posed the question, "How would you feel if you were kidnapped from your home and sold as a slave?". The students did not need to read the book to answer that question they weere able to use their own thoughts.

Next, for the Between the Author and Me strategy, the teacher used a text dependent question, "Why did Lew and Clark hire Charbonneau on the condition that he bring Sacagawea?". She then shows the students this answer in the book that way they see it comes from the book with their own reasoning attached. Later on she asks, "How did Sacagawea help them acomplish their mission?". She pointed out that this question involves both thinking on your own and using the book since they needed to reflect on what they had learned and use evidence from the book.

Overall, she helped the students understand both stratgies using the book and walking the students through the questions.

Nicole Bassett

2025-10-07 14:48:18 UTC

The tach was able to help her students understand what QAR was as well as strategies by getting them to figure out what QAR stands for. She then models what it would look like while reading a book. She says that "on my own, in my head" means that you can answer questions without reading the book while "between the author and me" students will have to read and have an understanding of the book to answer the questions.

Anabel Adams

2025-10-28 13:01:54 UTC

The teacher helped the students understand the QAR strategies by doing a modeled think aloud to the class comparing the difference between the two strategies. For the on my own, in my head strategy, she asked the question "How would you feel if you were kidnapped and became a slave?" She explained that you don't have to have read the book to answer that question. She went on to say that you could go over to a first grade classroom, and they could answer the question. She then went on to ask a more content specific question towards the book. This is when the Between the Author and me strategy came into play. She explains that the author has helped deepen our understanding and based on what the author has told us we can answer the question.