Below are Costa's Levels of questioning. There are 3 question types.  Students need more than simple recall questions. The following are examples of questions using Costa's Levels of Questioning. Encourage your child to think at Level 2 and Level 3.

Reading Question Types

Here are the definitions of the types of questions we write in reading:

Level 1- Vocabulary Type Questions: What does this word mean? Use the context or a dictionary to find the meaning and write it down.

Factual Type Questions: The answer is stated in the text or can be looked up in a reference source.

Level 2 –Inferring Type Questions: The one right answer can be figured out from the text using background knowledge.

Level 3– Critical Thinking Type Questions: More than one sensible answer can be based on evidence from the text. The different answers must disagree with each other: They cannot just be multiple parts of the same answer. If they can all be true at the same time, you probably have an inferring question.

Evaluative Type Questions: Ask the reader to decide good, bad, right or wrong in light of his or her own knowledge, values, or experience of life.