• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Two for One: Using QAR to Increase Reading Comprehension and Improve Test Scores
  • Contributor: Green, Susan
  • imprint: Wiley, 2016
  • Published in: The Reading Teacher
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/trtr.1466
  • ISSN: 0034-0561; 1936-2714
  • Keywords: Pharmacology (medical) ; Linguistics and Language ; Pharmacology ; Language and Linguistics
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This teaching tip describes an intervention used in a third‐grade classroom implemented to help students pass an end‐of‐grade reading comprehension test. Low scores on a practice end‐of‐grade comprehension test prompted a re‐examination of classroom reading instruction and a plan for intervention. This teaching tip describes the phases implemented over an eight‐week period to add the Question Answer Relationship (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">QAR</jats:styled-content>) strategy to students’ reader's toolboxes to increase comprehension and improve test scores. Most student scores on end‐of‐grade test increased after this intervention, which supports the use of <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">QAR</jats:styled-content> to improve test scores while furthering literacy development.</jats:p>