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How can we read and write with voice? My students will ask you!

By Tim Pappageorge
Question Formulation Technique:

"IT IS POSSIBLE TO PERFORM WITH VOICE and TO WRITE WITH VOICE, LIKE WALT WHITMAN"

After a brief introduction to the rules of QFT from the book Make Just One Change (Rothstein & Santana, 2013), my students were ready to form questions in pairs (steps 1 and 2); they then vetted the questions in small groups (4 students) and we posted them on the board below.
The quality of the questions and range of participation was off the charts!  We are studying Walt Whitman right now, so the idea of writing with voice and reading with voice coincides well with their work to perform a piece of poetry from memory (Poetryoutloud.org)

 I can envision using QFT (Question Formulation Technique) in  broad range of contexts.  It was hard not to launch into an answer to the question or to discuss it; just ask the questions and use them a s focal points throughout the unit.



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