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Questions at the Explanation Stage

  • Is everyone clear about what we are going to do?
  • Do you have all the materials you will need to begin?
  • Do you understand the key words we will use in this lesson?
  • How will we know if we have been successful?


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Questions at the Explanation Stage
  • I s everyone sure about how long we have to do this?
  • Has everyone got the order of doing things right?
  • Tell me again about the purpose of doing this.
  • Do you remember what we learned about…last time we did this?
  • Lets begin to look at some starting points.
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Questions at the Generation Stage

  • How do you think we might approach this problem?
  • Let’s try to list a few starting points…
  • What kind of plan should we develop?
  • What information can you provide to help us?
  • Where do you think we should begin?
  • What are we likely to end with?


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Questions at the Generation Stage
  • Has anyone had any experience of this before?
  • What ideas do you have?
  • What might happen if…?
  • Were might we find more ideas?
  • What do we already know that is true about…?
  • Are there any more suggestions before we begin?
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Questions at the Activity Stage

  • Can you explain what you have done so far?
  • Can you show me…?
  • What would happen if…?
  • Why is there a difference?
  • Is there another way to…?
  • What do you expect will happen when…?
  • What did you notice when…?Why do you think that…?
  • Have you tried…?
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Questions at the Activity Stage
  • Did you find a pattern in…?
  • Will it always work?
  • Is there any sort of rule about…?
  • What might explain that…?
  • How can you be sure that your test is correct?
  • How can you be certain that is right?



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Questions at the Activity Stage
  • Which explanation do you think is best?
  • What do you mean when you say…?
  • How will you test it out?
  • How can you convince me that this is correct?
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Questions at the Evaluation and Assessment Stage

  • How do you know you have been successful?
  • How could we improve it? Let’s look back to the success criteria we set ourselves.
  • How did we do?
    …and how does what we have done help us to understand…?
  • Take me carefully through the process again…


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Questions at the Evaluation
and Assessment Stage
  • Which is the best part of what we have done?
  • What is the most important thing we have found out?
  • Has anyone changed their mind after realising that…?
  • How did our findings compare with…?
  • How well did we think about…?
  • Where did we go wrong in our thinking?
  • What should we have done now that we know what we know now?
  • How can we be absolutely certain that…?
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Acknowledgement
  • Warrington Grid for learning


  • http://www.wgfl.org.uk