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  • 1.  Blog: The Value Of Closed-Ended Questions

    Posted 02-13-2024 11:28
    Happy Tuesday, everyone! We have a great blog discussing the merits of encouraging children to use complex language and how asking open-ended questions stimulates their language use!
    The Value Of Closed-Ended Questions
    Tell us how you practice this in your own setting!


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    Rachel Eavey
    Engagement Coordinator
    Teachstone
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  • 2.  RE: Blog: The Value Of Closed-Ended Questions

    Posted 02-14-2024 12:25

    Hola. Leí el artículo y me hizo pensar en ese valor que tienen las preguntas cerradas, no debemos descartarlas porque, como se ve  en el ejemplo que detallas, son un soporte para formular posteriormente preguntas abiertas. Sobre todo si consideramos que todos los niños no están acostumbrados a responder preguntas abiertas, o son muy pequeños, o tal vez, el tema no es muy conocido por ellos. Y las preguntas cerradas iniciales pueden resultar un puente de pensamiento para llegar finalmente, a un diálogo con preguntas abiertas que permitan a los niños ampliar su lenguaje. A mi me pasó con mi hija. Yo manejaba y le pregunté por qué los autos se estacionan en lugares donde no deben. Ella observó y me dijo nosé. Luego, yo repregunté: Ves que algunos autos se estacionan sin invadir la pista y dan acceso a todos. Ella comentó que si. Le pregunté, en esta cuadra ves que todos se han estacionado de manera que dejan que transitemos rápido? y mediante preguntas de observación fuimos llegando nuevamente a la pregunta inicial. Donde luego, ella me dio posibles hipótesis y razones por las que los autos se estacionan en lugares incorrectos. 



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    Vanessa Raffael
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  • 3.  RE: Blog: The Value Of Closed-Ended Questions

    Posted 02-14-2024 14:06

    I love this blog post! Teaching young undergraduate students has me thinking about this topic frequently. I seem to have to caution all of them in their first classroom experience to ask questions that you genuinely want them to answer. Even with experienced teachers I see/hear much of what I have coined, conversation quizzing. What are you doing? Is sometimes an initial question but is typically, what color is that (block, shirt, crayon) and moves on to a series of those type of questions. As most of you know the child has given up on the interaction by that point and moved away from the teacher/intern/parent. I have encouraged them to start with "I see you are (describe action, materials, etc) and see where the conversation goes from there. This has really helped them. However, using the "quiz-like" questions as scaffolding for the conversation or the concept is such an amazing way to think about the role of those types of questions. They may also serve a purpose in helping to build critical thinking skills when framed within a larger question or Big Idea!



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    Lori Farrer
    Early Childhood Ed Faculty
    Western Michigan University
    Kalamazoo MI
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  • 4.  RE: Blog: The Value Of Closed-Ended Questions

    Posted 02-17-2024 16:50

       I think the envioronment plays an imporant role in stimulate and support young children language development. Teacher as researcher and reflects on the work of children-individulally,in a group,and obsever children interactions with their peers and using all of their sense and, makes efforts to share /take turns and tries to do something before for asking for help. Pre -writing skills also helps to stimulates young children language when they are able to identifies their own written name,  names of friends ,/or family, members and know a few or many /all alphabet letters. Having them to verbalizing or share about what they did over the weekend with family and friends at meeting time,or shares his/her own stories or what to know the why? gives young children a sense of wonder.



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    Maria Newman
    Temple Hills, MDMariaMaria
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