Join Dr. Brandy Hempen in discovering the many ways to use questioning and discussion techniques to get and keep your students engaged. First explore the QAR (question and answer relationship) strategies where former students will explain how and why it helped them better understand any type of informational or literary text. Then discover the connections to Bloom’s Taxonomy and how you can incorporate the different levels to increase rigor in your classroom activities and assessments. Finally, receive actual discussion cards to use in your classroom (at four different levels) that are sure to help increase the richness and productivity of discussions between and amongst your students. this quick workshop is sure to leave you with many ideas to put into action immediately in a low-prep, yet high impact way.