Answer a clarifying question

Supplied materials

• Paper and pencil, or a browser text area. All named people/events/records are fictional learning inputs.
• Worked case: Note: two books and paper. Locator: Paper Bridges, p. 2. Need: show model parts. Listener: What did you use?
• Primary check: Note: fold the sheet. Locator: Paper Bridges, p. 3. Need: show action order. Listener: How did you fold it?

Learn the idea

A listener may need clarification about materials, a step, a result or an uncertainty. A useful reply addresses that exact question using the notes.

Identify what the question asks and respond only with the corresponding supplied information. Admit when the record does not answer it.

Example to read or listen to: Note: two books and paper. Locator: Paper Bridges, p. 2. Need: show model parts. Listener: What did you use? The answer is name the materials. The relevant input states: Listener: What did you use?. This fits name the materials. A listener may need clarification about materials, a step, a result or an uncertainty. A useful reply addresses that exact question using the notes. A confident guess does not fill a missing observation.

1. Read or listen to the worked example. Say what the reading or writing task asks you to find. An adult can help with unfamiliar words.
2. Identify what the question asks and respond only with the corresponding supplied information. Admit when the record does not answer it.
3. Check the worked solution: name the materials. The relevant input states: Listener: What did you use?. This fits name the materials. A listener may need clarification about materials, a step, a result or an uncertainty. A useful reply addresses that exact question using the notes. A confident guess does not fill a missing observation.
4. Try the question and the practice questions. Point to the words that helped you choose before checking the feedback.

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Take it further

Optional extra practice: Prepare a one-minute paper presentation from this fictional record: two books, one paper sheet; fold the sheet and bridge the books; the model held three blocks before bending. Use Materials, Procedure and Observations headings, a labeled sketch and a source note Fictional Model Record, section 1. State that thicker paper was not tested. Practice this lesson’s skill as you complete the task. Use this idea to check your work: A listener may need clarification about materials, a step, a result or an uncertainty. A useful reply addresses that exact question using the notes.

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