What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking Book

What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking, Because when students' instruction is organized around meaningful, clear questions, writes Jim Burke in What's the Big Idea?, they understand better, remember longer, and engage much more deeply and for greater periods of time. Jim shows how planni, What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking

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What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
Written by author Jim Burke
Published by Heinemann, February 2010
"Because when students' instruction is organized around meaningful, clear questions," writes Jim Burke in What's the Big Idea?, "they understand better, remember longer, and engage much more deeply and for greater periods of time." Jim shows how planni
Many people have written about how theory (or research) relates to practice; Jim is one of those rare professionals who live the relationship.-Arthur ApplebeeNAEP advisor, Validation

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Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Why Do Questions Matter in Curriculum? 1

An Introduction

Sample Unit 1 An Intellectual Rite of Passage 22

Engaging Students with Essential Questions

Sample Unit 2 Spirited Inquiry 46

Creating Questions to Access a Challenging Text

Sample Unit 3 Natural Curiosity 74

Using Questions to Explore Relationships

Sample Unit 4 Meaningful Conversations 130

Essential Questions as a Way into Required Texts

Using Essential Questions to Design Your Own Units 154

Some Final Thoughts

Appendices

Appendix A Of Mice and Men Chapter-by-Chapter Reading Notes and Questions 162

Appendix B The Academic Essentials Planning Grid 169

Appendix C The Big Questions 170

Appendix D Designing a Standards-Based Curriculum 176

Appendix E Unit Planning Sheet 180

Works Cited 181

Study Guide 184

Index 193

Title: What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking

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I love this book because it gave me many great ideas to engage students in reading literature. It is practical, gives great advice, and shows how to create units based on the big questions we all face in life.

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