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Moving Students' Questions Out of the Parking Lot
Author(s) -
Ness Molly
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1226
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , mathematics education , pedagogy , engineering , systems engineering
This article provides teachers with ideas on how to address students’ self‐generated questions. Following a third‐grade classroom, the article explores the use of a “parking lot” – a repository for the seemingly off‐task questions which curious students naturally pose. As students encounter informational text with genuine purposes, they purposefully seek out the answers to their own questions and continue to generate additional questions.

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