Question is the Answer

Molly Ness is an associate professor at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, and earned her PhD in Reading Education from the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on reading comprehension instruction, the instructional decisions and beliefs of preservice and inservice teachers, and the assessment and diagnosis of struggling readers. A former Teach For America corps member, she is an experienced classroom teacher. She is the author of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America (Routledge Falmer, 2004).

Brilliant. Molly Ness takes decades of research on the cognitive role of questioning and distills it into concrete plans for classroom practice. The Question is the Answer will bring greater curiosity, learning, and wonderment to any classroom.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Inside Inquiry-Based Classrooms: The Research Basis for Question GenerationChapter Two: Tried But True Questioning StrategiesChapter Three: Questioning Inside Kindergarten ClassroomsChapter Four: Questioning Inside First-Grade ClassroomsChapter Five: Questioning Inside Second-Grade ClassroomsChapter Six: Questioning Inside Third-Grade ClassroomsChapter Seven: Questioning Inside Fourth-Grade ClassroomsChapter Eight: Questioning Inside Fifth-Grade ClassroomsReferences