post-its from KWL chart

Question Type	Questions from KWL Chart collected from 11/10/12 to 12/21/12	Total Number of Questions
Remembering	·      Do they bring pets? ·      Did they have candy bake in the day? ·      Do they have bathrooms ·      Do the kids know when it there birthday ·      What do the animals eat? ·      What is volcano stone?	6
Understanding	·      How many things does the kids have to do? ·      What does encyclopedia mean? ·      How do they get a house? ·      How do you become a pioneer? ·      How can your brun bullfo chips ·      How did pioneers learn to speak? ·      How did pioneers learn to write? ·      How would pioneers learn stuff to teach threr children?	8
Applying	·	0
Analyzing	·      Why do they sometime go west just for gold ·      Why can pioneers and animal cannot drink a lot of water ·      Why did mr. hickman shoot @ the Injuns?	3
Evaluating	·
Creating	·

The fact that there are so many remembering and understanding questions suggests that my students did not have a mastery of the content. 

Question Type	Questions from Bloom’s Pyramid Chart with Qfocus of “Character Inferences” collected from 11/10/12 to 12/21/12	Total Number of Questions
Remembering	·      Wat is a gazelle? ·      When did Winn Dixie start being homelsy.	2
Understanding	·      How can the malechestut fiy that is 13 cm ·      How did jay get a monkey ·      How can Otis go to jail ·      How did the Aunt die in Missing May	4
Applying	·      Is Bloomsking (sic) like missing may Like her family died and live with her uncle and aunt ·      I’m wondering if Opal going to let her friend meet each other ·      If the meat loaf was nasty to her then why did she eat it any ways? ·      What happens if Opels mom did come back, will she be ok? ·      Why doesn’t Opal’s dad spend time with her, because that is the main thing a dad has to do.	5
Analyzing	·      Did the mother move because her and the dad fought too much? ·      Why do George and Harold play with the lunch chart? ·      I wonder do Opels dad Preacher likes the dog. ·      Why is Wilbur feeling queer when he goes to the other side with the geese and cows ·      Why is she trying to be like Angeline and not trying to be herself? ·      Why does fern like to help a lot ·      Why is Otis so shy? ·      Why does Jack hate cats? ·      Why can’t Winn Dixie come in the store? ·      Why do people call her Peach Girl in dumb diary? ·      Why did tootsie spit up her feeding? ·      Where did winn-Dixie come from so that the could not be poor/homeless. ·      Why did her mom live? ·      Why Junie B. Jones talk back to he grandma and her grandma doesn’t do nothing but smile?	14
Evaluating	·      Would Opal’s mother’s life be better if she knew her daughter?	1
Creating	·	0

There is a far greater proportion of analyzing questions here.  I attribute this to several factors:
1. There was a Qfocus (character inferences) that we were constantly thinking about, adding post-its to, etc.
2. I was modeling this process of generating questions that were about character inferences
3. We had a shared text (Because of Winn Dixie)