Question-Answer Relationships (QAR) Strategy

QAR (Raphael, 1982; 1986) is a strategy that equips students to tackle questions more effectively by teaching them to recognize different types of questions.

Two types of questions, for example, are text-based:

• Right There questions are formulated with words taken exactly from the text. Answers can be found in the same sentence.
  
• Think and Search questions ask students to think about the information they read and to search through the entire passage to find information that applies.

Two other types of questions are knowledge-based because they require students to use prior knowledge:

• Author and You questions require students to have read the text to understand the questions; however, the answers are not found in the text.
  
• On My Own questions can be answered by students based on their background knowledge; they do not require reading the text.

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Last updated 2/28/00.