Making Questions
Question writers can use this to Level-Up their questions.
What is(are) Costa's Question House / Bloom's Taxonomy Question Stems.
Students can read these before reading the text passages.
What are the questions?
Students can look for these to find great evidence.
What are key words linked to their ideas?
Making an educate guess about what you read.
What is an inference?
When I got home from school after a long boring day, I took out the peanut butter, jelly, and bread. After taking the lid off of the jars, I spread the peanut butter on one side of the bread and the jelly on the other, and then I put the two pieces of bread together. After that, I enjoyed it while watching “Cops” on the TV. I swear, that was the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich I ever ate. What text structure is this?
Chronological Order
This type of thinking is required from advanced questions.
What is higher order thinking?
Writing notes in the margins.
What is annotating?
Where can you find evidence?
In a text.
The inference you could make about someone you see crying.
What is they are sad?
Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago but unlocked the secrets of chess in a Brooklyn apartment right above a candy store. At the age of six he taught himself to play by following the instruction booklet that came with his chess board. After spending much of his childhood in chess clubs, Fischer said that, “One day, I just got good.” That may be a bit of an understatement. At the age of 13 he won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship, becoming the youngest Junior Champion ever. At the age of 14 he won the U.S. Championship and became the youngest U.S. Champion in history. Fischer would go on to become the World Champion of chess, but he would also grow to become his own worst enemy. Instead of defending the title, he forfeited it to the next challenger without even making a move, and the rise of a chess superstar ended with a fizzle. What text structure is this?
Chronological
What could you infer.. is a question start of this level.
What is level 2?
By keeping track of this, students can be sure to finish all the questions by the end of the class.
What is the time?
These punctuation marks go before and after your evidence.
What are quotation marks?
What can you infer about Jessica when she is tapping her pencil on the desk in 13 Reasons Why?
She is nervous or angry.
Dr. Miller doesn’t want the tigers to vanish. These majestic beasts are disappearing at an alarming rate. Dr. Miller thinks that we should write to our congress people. If we let them know that we demand the preservation of this species, maybe we can make a difference. Dr. Miller also thinks that we should donate to Save the Tigers. Our donations will help to support and empower those who are fighting the hardest to preserve the tigers. We owe it to our grandchildren to do something. What text structure is this?
Problem and Solution
Judge, predict, and prioritize are all examples of key words from this level of Costa's question house.
What is level 3?
When answering a question, students can pay attention to these to make sure they are answering it completely and correctly.
What are key words?
This tells the reader where the evidence came from.
What is the citation or page number.
What can you infer about Romeo's reaction to Tybalt when he challenges him to a duel before Mercutio dies?
He doesn't want to fight because he sees Tybalt as family.
Many people are confused about why our economy went to shambles in 2008. The crisis was actually the result of a combination of many complex factors. First, easy credit conditions allowed people who were high-risk or unworthy of credit to borrow, and even people who had no income were eligible for large loans. Second, banks would bundle these toxic loans and sell them as packages on the financial market. Third, large insurance firms backed these packages, misrepresenting these high-risk loans as safe investments. Fourth, because of the ease of acquiring credit and the rapid growth in the housing market, people were buying two or three houses, intending to sell them for more than they paid. All of these factors created bubbles of speculation. These bubbles burst, sending the whole market into a downward spiral, causing employers to lose capital and lay off employees. Consumer spending then plummeted and most businesses suffered. The economy is like a big boat, and once it gets moving quickly in the wrong direction, it’s hard to turn it around. What text structure is this?
Cause and effect
In the question "How would you categorize...?" the word categorize could be changed to this word in order to change it to a level 3 question.
What is prioritize?
If a student has trouble answering a question, they should do this.
What is skip the question and answer it when they finish all easy questions?
What is the primary source for all evidence?
The text.
What can you infer about Clay's actions in this passage? I rub two fingers, hard, over my left eyebrow. The throbbing has become intense. “It doesn’t matter,” I say. The clerk takes the package. The same shoebox that sat on my porch less than twenty-four hours ago; rewrapped in a brown paper bag, sealed with clear packing tape, exactly as I had received it. But now addressed with a new name.
He is stressed or angry.
Before applying the screen protector, clean the surface of your phone’s screen with a soft cloth. Once the surface of your screen is clean, remove the paper backing on the screen protector. Evenly apply the sticky side of the screen protector to your phone’s screen. Smooth out any air bubble trapped on between the protector and the phone screen. Enjoy the added protection. What text structure is this?
Sequence