- Background and Basics 1. The Building Blocks of Questioning the Author 2. The Current Scene in Reading Comprehension - Questioning the Author Essentials 3. Planning for Questioning the Author Lessons 4. Specific Plans for a Narrative and an Expository Text 5. Digging into Initiating and Follow-Up Queries 6. Specific Plans for a Narrative and an Expository Read-Aloud Text - Special Topics 7. What Comes after Reading and Interspersed Discussion? 8. Vocabulary in the Context of Comprehension 9. Approaching Writing with a Questioning the Author Perspective - Inside the Classroom 10. Moves to Keep Discussion Productive 11. One Teacher's Journey with Questioning the Author 12. Students Take the Wheel Appendix. Lesson Texts from Chapters 4 and 6