results of student survey 12/10/12

Questions	yes	no	Student Explanation	My Analysis
1. Do you like asking questions as you read or learn during expedition?  Why or why not?	8	0	Yes ·      You mite lean more ·      It helps you understand more ·      The answers help me think deeper ·      I like adding more to my questions ·      I learn a lot of new thinks ·      I want to stay informed on science and history
2. Do you like researching answers to the questions you ask?  Why or why not?	5.5	2.5	Yes ·      You can get more infomashon about what you are researching ·      You can find out your questions ·      It’s fun ·      It tells me a lot of others stuff that I did no no ·      You find out a lot of things ·      If I can’t get the answers then I should research the question if I really don’t know the answers No ·      You get all mixed up and most often they give you the answer your not looking for ·      You can’t find an answer ·      You might get the wrong answer	Interesting to see Kashira defining research as something you do when you can’t find the answer yourself, almost like research is a third party The “no” answers all make sense with what happened when we researched during expedition last month.  It was frustrating to not find the answers we were looking for.  I need to teach my kids that this is okay, some questions you have to store away as “unanswered” and appreciate them for this.
3. What is the best thing about asking questions?			·      You can lean someting from someone ·      You can learn something that yo didint know ·      You get to learn more about that thing ·      At the end when you do research you become smarter ·      You can sometimes write down someone questions ·      You can find out something by asking ·      You can find out the answer later ·      You can really look it up or think in your head	Social Research Personal impact
4. What is the worst thing about asking questions?			·      Nothing ·      You won’t get enouf work done ·      Well have to think about the question you ask ·      Sometimes you won’t be able to find an answer ·      Maybe putting to much in you answer ·      That you have to write them down ·      It’s hard to generate them ·      I really don’t know what is the worst thing about asking questions because I like asking questions	Yay! I can relate to this response, it does kind of take you out of the book to stop and write down a question Preoccupation with answer Difficulty of process
5. What is the best thing about researching answers to the questions you ask?			·      You can lean more by…looking it up or you can get info about it from pepol ·      So that you understand it ·      That you can learn more about that. ·      You get smarter and might be able to teach someone something new ·      You can maybe get the right answer ·      It gives you a lot of informions ·      Once your done your fully informed on your subject ·      You can learn a lot from the questions you ask and write them down	Social Learning Personal impact Preoccupation with answer
6. What is the worst thing about researching answers to the questions you ask?			·      Thaer is nothing wrog about restching ·      It can take to long ·      I don’t have one ·      Your question might be too long and might be hard to shorten ·      Maybe doing the worng thing ·      Sometime it doesn’t when you tipe it in or something you get it wrog ·      It’s hard to find a way to shorten your question and make it equal to the main idea ·      Maybe you can’t find the answers to them some times	Yay! Preoccupation with “wrong” answer Revising difficulaties – interesting that they’re familiar enough with the process to realize it’s importance and begin to articulate some of the difficulties with it Time
7. What are some examples of good questions that you’ve generated?			·      What is a dolfine doing in the swamp ·      One is about how much do the cowboys get paid ·      What does the tiger mean to Rob ·      How do you become a pioneer? And how can you brun bullfo chips ·      How do pioneers get there house ·      In the Chicago fire did Mrs. O’Leary die? ·      About Junie B. Jones like how can she do better in school	Lower-level questions Higher-level questions
8. What do you think makes a question a good one?			·      If it’s something you like ·      It has to have something to explain about ·      I think a good question should make you think deeply and it should take research ·      Sometimes adding beaitls [details?] ·      That you can get a lot geart question [?] ·      One that challenges yourself ·      It makes it a good question if you judge or if you make up a question	Student sees connection between a good question and ownership of that question/interest in the topic These responses suggest the connection between “good” and rigor Kashira is trying to suggest that good questions are evaluating or creating questions
9. What have you learned from the questions you researched?			·      Like in what does a cowboy eat for lunch I leand that thay eat cilly beans ·      They get paid only $1.00 doller a day ·      Pioneers didn’t really have time for school ·      Sometimes they will give you more things for your questions ·      That you know a lot of things ·      If you try your best you might always get a better grade ·      It’s a smart thing to do and just try it out
10. Do you like asking questions during reading or expedition			Expedition ·      I can learn more from my parners ·      Expedition because that my favite subjest ·      Sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing so I ask somebody in expedition Reading ·      Reading because I can empathize with characters even more ·      I like asking question more during reading because I don’t get some stuff in reading so that’s why reading	They seem to see there’s more opportunities to socially interact with questions during expedition

observations from generating questions as I read "Out of the Dust"

• It's fun to jot down questions as I go, even if it feels a little weird at first.
• It didn't feel natural for me to start writing down answers or rush to research.  It felt better just to have these questions floating around in the back of my head.
• sometimes the answers to my questions evolved over time

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)

The habit of questioning:
Tremayne just starts writing questions and answers in his journal after he finishes reading Wemberly Worried in guided reading.  I know that he's doing it because it's what he expects I want, and so it's not as powerful as it would be if he were doing it after finishing an independent reading book, but it's a start.

Tremayne's questions:
-Why did Wemberly laughed and said I will?  Like in the end of the story the teacher said everyone please come back and Wemberly said I will, I think she might like playing with her friends now. 

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Omar: right there and inferred traits of characters like Sharie
Vianey: also inferred about Sharie, that she doesn't pay attention
They also took notes on Bebe.

Vianey: Is all of Wayside School not normal?
Does Ms. Jules need glasses?

We start popcorn reading the next chapter.
Omar: How is that the best seat in the class?
Vianey: Maybe because it's the seat where he won't get caught talking.
Tommy: Why couldn't he be sent to the office instead of being written on the board under discipline?
 At the end, I modeled how to ask an evaluating question.
Vianey beats me to the punch and asks a question based on the pic for the next chapter: What can Ms. Jewels do to help Dana?