Facts, Questions, Responses

Facts/Questions/Responses is an assessment strategy for examining a piece of text. Students use sticky notes to label areas in the passage that either represent factual information, elicit questions, or generate personal reactions. These three elements provide a basis for class discussion.

Implementation

1. Introduce the passage that students will read and describe the details of the FQR focused reading strategy.
2. Distribute differently colored sticky notes.
3. As students read the passage, they should make note of the facts, questions, and responses that arise as they read the material. Paste these in appropriate places in the reading. They should draw an arrow on the sticky notes to point to the specific place in the passage, jotting down a note or two.

• Facts: materials presented as truthful items. Students can also include items in this category that they want to verify or have clarified.
• Questions: items from the text that are confusing or for which further information is needed.
• Responses: personal reactions to specific sections of the reading.

5. Either discuss the results of the reading with the entire class, or break into small groups of 2, 3, or 4 for discussion.

 

Variations

There are endless variations on the FQR strategy, depending on the genre or type of passage:

 

• For Non-fiction, check out: Facts Questions Response (FQR) – a note-taking/connections strategy
• FQR using picture books: This is a five page pdf lesson plan for implementing FQR. Nice discussion of modeling types of questions, not crazy about the FQR sheet style.
• FQR Sheet from Amy’s Activities: This is a three column pdf with lines for the students to write on, but is less “chart like”.

 

 

Preparation time: 10 / Delivery time: 40