Planning of questions for various level of reading of textbooks for early grade students

• Author: Edita Haxhijaha
• Position: Primary School 'Emin Duraku' Prizren
• Pages: 131-138

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015

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Planning of questions for various level of reading of textbooks for early grade

students

Edita Haxhijaha

Primary School “Emin Duraku” Prizren

Abstract

During the entire history of education, questioning has been one of the usual techniques of

teaching. Despite all the changes in the education theory and technology, this technique continues

to be usual, because it is an ecient tool to increase learning. Questioning is an interactive relation,

which enlivens the conversation, by giving continuity to the nding of nal result. Questioning

should be assessed as a technique, which gives high results, when it is managed successfully and

with attention towards the teacher, playing meanwhile an important role during the learning of

students. rough various planed activities, I tried to inuence teachers in order to plan as many

questions as possible, for the development of student’s critical thinking.

Taking into account the development of further activities I focused in the results extracted from

the data gained from the observation of teachers, target group, consultations with teachers, and

took into consideration various literature which considered this issue. is research included ve

teachers that teach in classes 1-5, in the ELSS “Emin Duraku” in Prizren/Kosovo. Observation

consisted of two periods. Results of the rst period of observation showed that while preparing the

teaching work, specically planning of questions I noticed that a big number were direct questions

with a low level of thinking. e research continued by maintaining the target group focused where

important discussions were held about the importance of planning the questions of dierent levels

that helped students to understand what they read and also contributed to the increasing of their

interest for reading-understanding of various school texts. en the second period of observation

was conducted. Results showed that there were dierences in the planning of questions by teachers,

compared to the results of the rst period of observation.

Conclusions of this operational research showed that students can understand easily various

school textbooks. Besides this, teachers should try to choose textbooks for students where they

can implement various levels of questions of reading-understanding, within the textbooks (within

the curriculum), in order for students to be able in the easiest possible way to understand various

contents of school textbooks.

erefore, I can stress that cooperation with teachers is crucial in order to bring results, especially

in planning questions of various levels.

Research was conducted during the period April – May 2015.

Keywords: Research in action, observation, target group, observation sheet, cooperation.

Introduction

We should admit that “Students’ learning starts when students start asking.”In everyday

school life, teachers have always seen the issue of asking as a power that promotes and

develops. Even this phenomenon is so much stressed, that it is noted and accepted that all

questions come from the teacher during a class and they are addressed by him (teacher

centered teaching).