What are the costa levels of questioning?
Level 1 (the lowest level) requires one to gather information. Level 2 (the middle level) requires one to process the information. Level 3 (the highest level) requires one to apply the information. Prove your answer.
What are the 3 levels of questions?
The Levels of Questions strategy helps students comprehend and interpret a text by requiring them to answer three types of questions about it: factual, inferential, and universal.
What are Level 1 questions examples?
Level #1 Questions: Example
- With whom did Cinderella live?
- What did Cinderella lose on the palace steps?
- What were Cinderella’s slippers made out of?
- How did Cinderella get to the ball?
What is a Costa Level 3 question?
Level three questions require students to go beyond the concepts or principles they have learned and to use these in novel or hypothetical situations.
How do you start a level 3 question?
Level Three questions go beyond the text, yet must show an understanding of the ideas in the text. These questions typically require reasoning, complexity, and/or planning. If it’s a level three question, you explain/justify your thinking and provide supporting evidence for reasoning or conclusions you make.
What are some Level 2 questions?
Level 2. Analysis/Interpretation Questions
- How did… occur?
- Why does… occur?
- What are the reasons for…?
- What are types of…?
- How does… function?
- How does the process occur?
- What are my own examples of…?
- What causes …to occur?
What are Costa Level 2 questions?
Level 2 questions go a step further than Level 1, prompting students to process information by ‘reading between the lines. ‘ While students may need to use literal information to formulate their responses, Level 2 requires them to process that information with what they already know in order to make new connections.