Dialogic Reading

Arthur Costa’s Levels of Questioning

Level I Examples Type of Question · defining · describing · identifying · listing · naming · observing · reciting · scanning

What is a lunar eclipse?

Which states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy?

How does The Road Not Taken begin?

Asks for facts, knowledge, dates, names, definitions.

Level II · analyzing How does the term Asks you to interpret, · comparing “manifest destiny” think, take what you · contrasting capture the essence of know and see it in a · grouping western expansion in new way. · inferring the US? · sequencing

In The Bet, how do the lawyer and the banker differ in their attitudes toward capital punishment?

Level III · imagining Which of the characters Asks you to extend your · evaluating in Great Expectations thinking beyond the · applying a suffers the most? text.

principle · hypothesizing Using the principle of · judging the communicative · predicting property, how can we · speculating find out the number of

apple trees in an orchard having 15 rows, 5 trees each.