Quality questions, directed inquiry, and authentic literacy are important tools that enhance students' comprehension, knowledge, and application of what is taught. Learn how to phrase and pose good questions that will ignite inquiring minds and enrich student learning during classroom instruction. Author Erik M. Francis shares a framework for engagement that hooks students' interest and guides students down four pathways of inquiry and questioning that make learning stick.

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Introduction : the quandary with inquiry and questioning in education -- What is an inquiring mind? -- What forms of inquiry students can students engage in and experience? -- How do good questions promote cognitive rigor and prompt inquiry? -- How can students be "hooked" into inquiry using good questions? -- How could good questions personaize inquiry and promote expertise? -- How can good questions and inquiry address and assess understanding? -- How do students' good questions foster and further foundational inquiry? -- How could inquiry and questioning deepen teaching and learning? -- Epilogue : Considerations for teaching and learning with an inquiring mind.