Redirecting Questions
Questions to Encourage Group Participation
- Does anyone know the answer to that question?
- Can anyone help Mary answer that question?
- Can anyone find the answer to that in your notes?
- What do you think about that?
- Let's see if we can figure out how to answer it together.
- How would you do that?
- What are we trying to find out?
- What do we do next?
Questions of Clarification
- What do you mean by…?
- Tell us more.
- Can you be more specific?
- In what way?
- Are you sure?
- Give an example of that.
- Which words in the sentence do you not understand?
Questions to Demonstrate Understanding
- What do we need in order to solve the problem?
- How is that related to…?
- If that is true, then what would happen if…?
- What are we trying to find out?
- How is your answer different from…?
- How would you say that in a different way?
