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Empowering Students Through Questioning: Enhancing Literacy And Metacognition With The Kylene Beers’ 3 Big Questions Strategy, Soumi Chakraborti
Empowering Students Through Questioning: Enhancing Literacy And Metacognition With The Kylene Beers’ 3 Big Questions Strategy, Soumi Chakraborti
2024-2025 Bill Martin Jr. Yearbook
This summary paper shares key ideas from one of the sessions at the 17th annual Bill Martin Jr.Symposium. The presenter focused on using questioning to promote critical thinking among students while engaging with nonfiction text and finding evidence to support the primary claim. The session focused on Kylene Beers’, a renowned author and educator, “The 3 Big Questions’ strategy” to encourage inquiry and reflection, facilitate knowledge construction, and foster transferable skills across disciplines. Literacy educators are always looking for ways to empower their students to be critical readers of text as they think deeply about what they are reading. Students …