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Learning to ask/write Questions
 Nothing new about teachers asking questions.
 Nothing new about class group discussions.
 Method using Costa’s Levels of Questions to
 Help learn how to develop questions from the text
 Enhance understanding of the text
 Participate in realistic discussions
Use Costa’s Levels of Questions
Look at the handout:
 Notice the trigger words
 Verbs – which means action
 Describing an action, state, or process
 Notice the Question Stems
 Use both/either the trigger words or question
stems to write questions
Learn the levels/types of questions
 Move from bottom to the top:
Each level requires higher level thinking
 Level 1: Knowledge & Comprehension appears on did
you read quizzes.
 Level 2: Application & Analysis appears on reading
comprehension questions and helps create small
projects or write notes
 Level 3: Snythesis and Evaluation proves
understanding because the knowledge takes a new
form
Look at the verbs under the types of
question stems.
 Why is Knowledge the lowest level of thinking?
 Why does Applcation require higher level thinking
than knowledge and comprehension?
 Why does Analysis require higher lever thinking than
comprehension and/or application?
 Why does synthesis require higher level thinking than
analysis?
 Why is evaluation the highest level of questioning and
or thinking?
Examples of how to form questions
 Trigger words – verbs: use in any level to help form
questions of the text.
 Look at the examples:
 What kind of assignments contain the
Knowledge and Comprehension types of
questions?
 What kind of assignments contain the
Application and Analysis types of questions?
Let’s practice with the articles
 Use the “Basketball” article you LLC’d.
 Use Costa’s Levels of Questions.
 What would be a Knowledge or Comprehension
question?
 What would be an Application or Analysis
question?
 What would be an Synthesis or Evaluating or
question?
Group Assignment: Form questions
 Choose two other people to form a group of three.
 With your group, form questions from the articles as
instructed on the question form.
 You have only one copy per group.
 Work together, stay focused, guide each other with the
form.
 Objective: write four questions from the articles – a
combination of the question types.
 Suggestion: Use your LLCing & discuss the articles
then write questions.
 Note: in the next step another group will analyze your
questions.