Question of the Day Oral Language | Restate the Question | Morning Meeting

Oral language skills are a fundamental part of the literacy puzzle. These Question of the Day prompts were designed for use during morning meeting to help build students' oral language skills while providing scaffolding for Restate the Question practice.

Students can’t read or write what they can’t say orally. Using classroom dialogue and discussion is an often under-utilized component of our day. Question of the Day helps even young students develop skills needed to write in complete sentences both in their own writing and while answering open-ended reading comprehension questions. Through daily practice with the Question of the Day, restating the question becomes seamless for students.

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

-Question of the Day in PDF, Powerpoint, and Google Slides (200 Slides)

-Question of the Day with no scaffolds

-Editable Template in both Powerpoint and Google Slides

-Teacher Guide with suggestions for implementation

Question of the Day progresses from easier and shorter questions to more complex multi-part responses. Question types are spiraled throughout the year so application of previously practiced skills are included. The first 100 questions are written in an intentional sequence, giving students many opportunities to work with a question type before moving on to another. New question types are given with sentence frames to help support students in learning to restate the question in their answer.

The beginning of the year includes many personal questions, designed with building community in mind. The first 100 questions, organized by type, are included below.

20- About Me questions with response stems

5- Yes/No questions with response stems

5- Yes/No questions

5- About Me questions with response stems

5- About me questions

5- Yes/No questions

5- About me questions

5- Make a choice questions with response stems

5- Make a choice questions

5- Two questions with response stems involving and

5- Two questions (i.e. What are two…)

5- Explanation questions with response stems involving because

5- Explanation questions (i.e. Why)

5- Would you rather questions with response stems (including why)

5- Would you rather questions

Note- The No Scaffolds version has no scaffolds on any slides. The scaffolded version includes frames on key slides detailed above.

The rest of the questions continue to expect compound and complex sentence responses. An editable template allows you to create your own!

Question of the Day is perfect in general education classrooms from 1st-4th grades. It can even be used in small groups, in speech and language supports, with ELL students, and more! The dialogue and discussions are perfect to start your day during morning meeting or calendar, or even as you close out your day. This daily oral language routine will help build your classroom community through relationship building, while also building needed skills to increase reading comprehension and written expression skills.

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