What: Created by Art Costa, founder of The Institute for Habits of Mind, Costa's Levels of Questioning uses the power of inquiry to develop students' ability to ask open-ended questions and develop higher order thinking skills.
Why effective? Moving students through Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking, students use critical thinking skills to make meaning out of the text, or what Rosenblatt describes as a "transaction with the text". This active process engages students in considering:
Resources:
Activities - Picture This: Using photographs is an easy entry point to introduce the concept of levels of questioning and to begin practicing asking questions:
References
Rosenblatt, L. M. (1988, January). Writing and reading: The transactional theory (Report No. 416). Retrieved from Eric website: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED29206