Questioning and Discussion Strategies of Week 4 As the saying goes from Ray LeBlond, " You learn something new everyday if you pay attention." This week I had to select four strategies that would assist students in a higher order of thinking--thinking differently than a yes or no type response and not simply rote memorization of facts and details to answer questions. Today's students are being asked to think more deeply and critically of how and why about someone or something when it comes to literature and association with the components of a story. My choices to learn more about were THUNKS , LITERARY LOG , GOLDEN LINES , and GRAFFITI BOARD . THUNK Who would’a thunk a thought that makes us think? Say that ten times! As simple and silly a question that is, thunks provide students with cleverly, created open-ended questions in starting a conversation and allows for thinking at a higher level. Best part is, answering a thunk...