hi is there anyone out there who could recommend any books that will help me have a better understanding of what sort of questions to ask children in a focused activities .it may seem odd but getting my self in a tiz and my mind is going blank.

Sorry I am not sure that I can help I just wanted to walcome you to the forum. What sort of activities is it for?

Specific questions can only be given for specific activities and would also depend on what the focus of the particular activity was. What you need to be doing though is asking a variety of open ended questions - questions that require more than a yes or no type answer.

What will happen?
Why did it happen?
How can we .........?
Where would you.......?
Tell me about.......?
How did you.......?
What is similar/different?

Think about getting the children to describe, predict and problem solve.

thankyou for your welcome

all activities really and when obseving children in order to achieve statements from within efys

only just started at placement and wanted to do things proper if that makes sense

thanks for that has made things clearer

As well as the open questions like How do you know and how can we etc.. I have found tell me more about .. really stimulates some fantastic conversations particularly when story telling
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