Clarity and Precision
What does _________ mean?
What is an example of ________ ?
Can you explain ________ in a different way?
Accuracy
How can we check whether _______ is true?
What evidence is there to believe _______ ?
How reliable is that evidence?
Depth
Could you explain some more about _______ ?
What is _______ similar to, or connected to?
What is _______ different or distinct from?
If _______ is true, what would this tell us?
Flexibility, Breadth & Creativity
What is a different idea about _______ ?
How else could we think about _______ ?
Reasoning
Why might someone think _______ ?
What are the reasons for thinking _______ ?
What conclusions can you draw from _______ ?
Do those reasons really lead to that conclusion?
Relevance and Importance
What is the most important point?
How does ______ help us answer our question?
What point is being made?
Questioning
What question would help us now?
What new questions does ______ raise?
Fairness
Is that really what was meant?
How might we explain the idea fairly?
What might others say about _______ that we haven't considered?
Do we have good reason to believe _______ ?
Thinking Together
How can we agree with ______ ?
How could we challenge ______ ?
What doe we need to consider about ______ ?
How could we build on _______ ?
How can we explain that view in different words?
Thinking Process
Where have we moved forward?
What do you understand more?
What have you discovered or learned?
What now makes sense?
What is now more confusing than you first thought?
What do we need to work on next?
Reflection
What were we trying to do?
What went well?
What didn't go so well?
What could we improve on?
What will help us here?
