Costa's Levels of Questioning Word Wall for Avid

One major component of AVID's WICOR strategy is inquiry, and teaching the students to create higher order questions themselves. This word wall can also be used as posters and help your students master Inquiry,

The word wall has 33 words organized into level one, two and three questions. Each word is color coded according to Costa's levels and has a student friendly definition, a graphic and an example. Using these cards in the classroom will help your students understand the not only the verb, but also how to create their own questions.

Ways to use this resource:

• As a word wall, the students can reference the academic vocabulary when they are creating questions for socratic seminars, for Collaborative Study Groups, or AVID Tutorials
• As an Interactive resource: Give each student or group of students a word and have them create questions based on a text for their word.
• As a whole group lesson: The essential question would be: "What is the difference between level one, level two and level three questions". The students can create three column notes and compare how each verb requires a different understanding of the material.
• As a handout: I have created a 2x2 copy of the word wall that students can keep as a reference to keep in their AVID binder or in their interactive notebook.