Strategy: Text Lookback



|Strategy: Text Lookback |

|Age Appropriate: 3rd through 12th grade |

|Procedures/Steps: Students boost recall of expository prose by looking back in the text for appropriate and important information. |

|1. Teacher presents short passages (100-200 words) from expository text on an overhead transparency and a list of 3 lookback |

|questions and 1 think question. |

|2. Provide students with copies of expository text passages and text-lookback/think questions. |

|3. Introduce the strategy by explaining to students that people cannot always remember everything they read. However, if a ‘fact’ |

|question is asked about the text that one cannot remember, it is important to look back in the text to find the answer. |

|4. Describe the difference between a ‘fact’ question and a think question by explaining that a think question will ask for an |

|opinion, belief or thought about the text or article and a ‘fact’ question will ask for a specific fact or something that can be |

|found directly from the text. |

|5. Read aloud through a sample expository passage and then read a series of 3 text lookback/think questions to the class. As the |

|teacher reads each question, highlight for students the word clues that will point to whether the question is a think or |

|text-lookback question. |

|6. Teach students to underline key words in question and then skim article for titles, headings or illustrations that might tell |

|the reader what to look for. |

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|Fact Question |Opinion Question |

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|Does the question ask about specific details? |Does the question ask for your thoughts? |

|Does the question ask information that you can find directly from|Does the question ask your opinion about something? |

|the text or article? |Does the question ask what you believe about something? |

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|Comments/Tips: |

|Text-lookback questions can be composed by the students to help reinforce this skill. |

|The text-lookback strategy is an efficient way for readers to find essential information from the text. |

|Source: |

|Garner, R. Hare, V.C., Alexander, P., Haynes, J., & Vinograd, P. (1984). Including use |

|of text lookback strategy among unsuccessful readers. American Educational |

|Research Journal, 21, 789-798 |

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