Questioning

After studying a few heroes, children were asked for a question that would give more information about a hero.
We had a variety of responses - using the questioning rubric (Trevor Bond) we even had some at level 2!!!!
Simply by showing the rubric and analysing our repsonses, the children made huge changes to their questions and were very surprised as to how simple it was, now that they knew what they were doing.

One students response:
1: How did she get experience form jobs?
after questioning lesson
2: How did Amelia Earhart get experience from her volunteer nursing and flight instructor jobs?

Children made the connection straight away, that with a better question, the information or answer is going to be of a higher quality too.
Providing the students with the scaffolding to support their thinking and learning is vitally important and has such positive and powerful results.