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More often than not, children in K-1 are seen as incapable of participating in higher level thinking. The students are seen as immature and have not built enough prior knowledge for the process to be truly effective. The educators feel they need to spoon feed the information to them and tell them what to think rather than letting them come to their own conclusions and understanding. Children can process and analyze at this age. the students need to be give the opportunity and the educator needs to raise his or her expectations of the class. Establishing norms and modeling how the process should go early on, can assist a kindergarten class to have a meaningful discussion and discovery with the educator's role as facilitator prompting and guiding with questioning techniques.
 * How can high level questioning be used in K-1 classrooms effectively? **

= Example of a kindergarten questioning and discovery session =

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She does not explicitly state that Good Readers ask questions. She allowed them the opportunity to explore and discover in the activity just like they would in a book.