Now That's a Good Question!: How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning

by Erik M. Francis

In this book, Erik M. Francis explores how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies—questioning—can provide the proper scaffolding to deepen student thinking, understanding, and application of knowledge. You'll Francis offers myriad examples of good questions across content areas and grade levels, as well as structures to help teachers create and use the different kinds of questions. By using this book to fine-tune your approach to questioning, you can awaken the spirit of inquiry in your classroom and help students deepen their knowledge, understanding, and ability to communicate what they think and know.

Genres: Education

175 pages, Paperback

Published July 22, 2016

Reviews

[Laura Howell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book and was inspired to learn more with the turning of each page.
First, for anyone who may not be familiar with the acronym DOK, Depth of Knowledge, you will have a clearer understanding after reading this book. Erik Francis does an exceptional job using illustrations to help deepen the reader's understanding of what good questions are and are not.
Secondly, after reading this book, the reader will also have a deeper understanding of what the eight different kinds of questions are, and how they can be used to guide students to demonstrate higher-order thinking and to be able to communicate their understanding and to apply their knowledge.
Finally, Mr. Francis provides techniques for constructing good and bad questions across multiple content areas, provides a myriad of examples that can be used as is or scaffold to meet the needs of all types of learners. Each chapter concludes with easy to follow professional development ideas that are transferable for tomorrow's lead learners in the classroom.

[Phillip Nash · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book on ensuring your lesson planning and production is centered around quality questions that promote cognitive rigor. While many teachers do ask good questions, this sets up a framework to ensure you are asking your students a range of quality question types that really ensure they think deeply about your subject.

[Brian Geniusz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a number of great pieces of information about different types of questions teachers can ask students. It made me think about how to help the student s connect to the content they are learning.

I did struggle with the sentence structure of the text. It was very complex and contained multiple thoughts per sentence. I found 5 conjunctions in one sentence.

[Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy this book at all.
It was confusing, it was very dry, and just when I thought I understood what they meant about a type of question they'd give an example that went against what I thought they meant.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful for my teaching!

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had a lot of examples of question types. I was able to pick a few pieces and strategies out to try in my own classroom.

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good Information on how to ask good questions in the classroom, but was hard to get through and very dry.