Ace the RICA Readiness Challenge 2025 – Amp Up Your Teaching Skills!

The QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) strategy is specifically designed to help students understand the different types of questions they encounter while reading. This strategy categorizes questions into four types: Right There, Think and Search, Author and You, and On Your Own. By using QAR, children learn to identify whether a question is based on information explicitly stated in the text, requires them to synthesize information from the text, or involves their own opinions or prior knowledge.

This understanding encourages active reading and questioning techniques, allowing students to approach texts more thoughtfully and improving their comprehension skills. As a result, recognizing the type of question being asked is crucial for selecting appropriate reading strategies and effectively locating information within the text. Thus, the QAR strategy primarily aids students in identifying the type of question involved, which in turn enhances their overall reading comprehension.