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The Tempest: QAR Lesson PlanThe Tempest: QAR Lesson Plan
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9th - 12th
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The Tempest: QAR

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Asking questions about a text is an effective way to improve reading comprehension. Apply the Question Answer Response strategy to your unit on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. As kids read each passage, they decide if the answer can be found right there in the text, if they need to search for the answer, or if they need to think about their own experience to find the answer.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the tempest, william shakespeare, asking questions, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, close reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have kids use the questioning strategy throughout the play unit
  • Prompt your class to write down their best questions and use one from each learner in a reading assessment

Classroom Considerations

  • Lesson plan has student teacher's name on it
  • Does not provide any activities or worksheets beyond the examples, so you'll need to provide your own passages

Pros

  • Promotes critical reading and literary analysis skills
  • Strategy is applicable to any novel, play, short story, or informational text

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.9-10.1 RL.11-12.1

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