How questionning can be used as an effective teaching strategy.

This presentation will look in detail at two aspects of a literacy lesson which focussed upon the children’s storybook ‘The Owl Babies’ and the use of questioning as an effective teaching strategy.
Analysis of teaching strategies took place during the introductory Progression in Phonics (otherwise known as PIPs) and later within the whole class shared text session.
Firstly I will look at the introductory session, which possessed a clear learning objective:
for children to be able to generate a number of words containing the phoneme OW/OU. This activity therefore related to acquisition and the recall of the children’s knowledge.

The learning objective was fulfilled by a simple activity, the teacher merely asked the children to recall as many OW/OU words they possibly could and then selected each child in turn to come to the front so that they could write words on a prepared chart.
This activity consequently included the practising of skills such as spelling and handwrit...