Costa's Questions
This is the type of question you could make where the reader finds the answer by looking in one spot in the text.
What is a Level 1 question?
The author gives true, factual information to teach or inform about a topic.
What is to inform?
During this read of close reading, you read to get the gist.
What is the first read?
You should do this when you are reading and come across a signpost.
What is stop and make an annotation?
Big question #1 asks this question.
What Suprised me?
This type of question may ask you to compare and contrast various pieces of information in a text.
What is a level 2 question?
The author tells the steps in a process or gives directions on how to do something.
What is to explain?
During your final read your should write a final summary and also identify this.
What is the author's purpose?
An author might include a percentage for this signpost.
What is numbers and stats?
"At first, I thought...but now I think." is a sentence starter for this big question.
Big Question #3
This type of question asks the reader to process information from the text.
What is a level 2 question?
The author states opinions and reasons to try to convince the reader of a certain point of view.
What is to persuade?
Annotating can also be referred to as this term.
What is talk-to-the-text?
With this signpost, the reader might think, "Wow! That's not what I expected given what I know about that topic."
What is contrasts and contradictions?
"The author assumed that I..." is a sentence starter for this big question.
Big Question #2
Being able to apply information from a text is a characteristic of this type of question.
What is a level 3 question?
The author uses figurative language, sensory details, and adjectives to tell about a topic.
What is to describe?
Highlighting and annotating should be done during this read of the close reading process.
What is the second read?
An author would use this signpost to show bias or to get the reader to feel a certain way about a topic or idea.
What is extreme and absolute language?
"I could not believe..." is a sentence starter for this big question.
Big Question #1
The following question is an example of which type of question: What problem in the real world can the information in the text be used to solve? Why?
What is a level 3 question?
The author writes something for the reader's enjoyment.
What is to entertain?
This is how many words the author's purpose should be.
What is one word?
This signpost is important becuase it asks the reader to consider the source.
What is quoted words?
"What changed, challenged, or confirmed my thinking?" is this big question.
Big Question #3