A format for the teaching of reading, developed by Susan McMahon and Taffy Raphael, in which students select the books they wish to read, discuss them in small groups, and share their reflections with the whole group.
In QARs, the quality associated with an answer to questions that can be found in the text but require students to synthesize materials within the text.
A degree or quality regarding the level of difficulty of a text which is measured by looking contextually at the qualitative and quantitative as well as the reader and task-related aspects of a given text.
A reading technique that combines elements from the ReQuest and QAR strategies to help middle- and upper-grade students recognize words, anticipate the nature of teachers’ questions, focus on informative parts of a text, and answer questions effectively.