Do Now 9/27:• Get your journal (BUT LEAVE YOUR

WRITING BINDER – WE ARE NOT USING IT TODAY)

• Read the poem on the following slide and answer the question in your journal.

“There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, andthree-story intellects with skylights.All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts areone-story men.Two-story men compare, reason, generalize, using the laborof fact collectors as their own.Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict - their bestillumination comes fromabove the skylight.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

•Do you aspire to be a one-story, two-story, or three-story person? Why?

Costa’s Levels of Costa’s Levels of QuestioningQuestioning

Costa’s Levels of Costa’s Levels of QuestioningQuestioning

One who asks a question is a fool for One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a five minutes; one who does not ask a

question remains a fool forever.question remains a fool forever. Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

Teaching Costa’s Three Levels

• Students will learn the concept of Higher Order Thinking

• Students will practice formulating questions of increasing complexity

• Students will reflect on how questioning skills can help them learn

Level OneKnowledge Comprehension

Define Restate

Repeat Label

List Identify

Describe Summarize

Recall Paraphrase

Level 1 Questions…

• Level 1 is like the ground floor- the foundation of a building- important information you need to have, such as definitions, numbers, formulas.– The answers can be found in the text or other

sources– Very concrete and pertains to the text– Asks for facts about what has been heard or

read– Information is recalled in the exact

manner/form it was heard

Level TwoApplication Analysis

Use Analyze

Practice Differentiate

Diagram Revise

Contrast Experiment

Construct Generate

Level 2 Questions…• The answer can be inferred from the text• Although more abstract than a Level 1

question, it deals only with the text• Information can be broken down in parts• Involves examining in detail, analyzing

motives or causes, making inferences, finding information to support generalizations or decision making

• Questions combine information in a new way

Level ThreeSynthesis Evaluation

Combine Debate

Organize Conclude

Judge Interpret

Predict Justify

Measure Argue

Level 3 Questions…• The answer goes beyond the text• Is abstract and does not pertain to the text• Ask that judgments be made from

information• Gives opinions about issues, judges the

validity of ideas or other products and justifies opinions and ideas

• Provoke discussion of abstract ideas or issues

Practice - LOTF• With your group, create 5 level 1

questions, 4 level 2 questions, and 3 level 3 questions

• Prepare to share you best question from each level.