Teaching Question Answer Relationships, Revisited.

students love working with QARs, it really helps them find infor mation in their textbooks, but some times they're confused by the difference between Right There and Think and Search. What should I do? Can an On My Own have some in formation from the text? I'd like to use QAR as more of a framework for seeking information than your articles suggest; any ideas of how to approach this? These are only a few of the types of comments I have received from class room teachers who use Question An swer Relationships (QAR). Because of such questions, and because of the many useful suggestions received from teachers, I have modified and updated the original QAR program (Raphael, 1982; 1984). These modifications have provided (1) a clearer explanation of different sources of information for answering questions, (2) an easier for mat for considering developmental dif ferences in teaching and learning QARs, and (3) an expanded use of QARs as both a tool for teachers and a strategy for students.