Questioning - Building active and critical questioning skills
Editable questioning pack with a teacher guide, student handouts, and slideshow. Includes activities, assessment options, and routines to build active and critical questioning skills.
Help your students move beyond surface-level thinking with this structured, classroom-ready resource. Designed for Years 9–10, this unit introduces and strengthens purposeful questioning in reading, viewing, and discussion. It includes everything you need to teach, model, and assess effective questioning and critical thinking.
This resource includes:
⭐ A full teacher guide in A4 booklet format (editable)
⭐ Student handouts included in the guide
⭐ A matching class slideshow with discussion prompts and examples
Covers:
❤️ What good questioning looks like
❤️ The five purposes for questioning
❤️ The Question Ladder and questioning routines
❤️ Questioning for reading and viewing
❤️ Questioning to analyse language, structure, and style
❤️ Exploring perspective, credibility, and bias
❤️ An example assessment rubric
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page. This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Listening - Active and Critical Listening (also touches on questioning but not in as much detail)
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