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Teaching Kids to Move Beyond One-Word Questions
If you’re tired of why, use this framework to help your kindergarten students ask specific questions that yield better answers.
By Jessie Grees
December 23, 2016

According to an anecdote from my parents, as a young child I would always ask, “Why?” or “What?” or “When?” Frustrated by the endless stream of questions, my parents came up with a solution: They encouraged me to ask a different type of question. “Single-word questions are penny questions,” they said. “They’re not worth much and don’t get you very far. Ask dollar questions.”

…Dollar questions have four main features. They investigate a topic, require processing time, include details, and yield better answers. Penny questions have none of these features. In fact, just as 100 pennies make up a dollar, it would take several penny questions to have the same impact as a dollar question. In essence, a dollar question is complete sentence while a penny question is a fragment.

Read more about this technique, which is intended for young learners in their first language but could also be used to encourage second language learners to ask better questions, here: https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-kids-move-beyond-one-word-questions-jessie-grees