What does the QAR strategy help students determine?

The QAR (Question-Answer Relationships) strategy is specifically designed to help students understand the nature of different types of questions they may encounter while reading. This strategy assists learners in distinguishing between questions that have explicit answers found directly in the text ("Right There" questions) and those that require inference or interpretation based on the text's content ("Think and Search" or "Author and You" questions). By using this strategy, students develop skills to recognize when answers are clearly stated versus when they need to draw on their own understanding or background knowledge to infer meanings, making option C the correct choice.

The other options, while related to reading comprehension, do not align with the primary purpose of the QAR strategy. Identifying whether a text is fiction or non-fiction pertains more to genre classification, while recognizing illustrations relates to visual literacy. Understanding an author's bias focuses on critical reading and perspective analysis, which are separate reading skills from those targeted by the QAR framework.