Mattingly "AI & Prompt Design: The Basics of Prompt Design"
Asking Leveled Questions
1. Costa’s Three Story House
• Level 3: Apply information
– Evaluate, judge, generalize, predict,
hypothesize, imagine, speculate, forecast
• Level 2: Process information
– Compare, contrast, sort, infer, analyze, classify,
explain
• Level 1: Gather information
– Complete, identify, recite, define, list, select,
describe, observe
2.
3. Three Levels of Reading
Asking Questions
Reading on the Line
L1
Reading Between the Line L2 Reading beyond the Line
L3
Understanding &
Remembering
Find meaning directly
in the text
Applying & Analyzing
Making Inferences from the
text
Evaluating & Creating
Using theme statements to
make into universal questions
about human nature or
condition
“Who?” “What?” “When?”
and “Where?”
“How?” “Why?” Readers move beyond the text
to connect literature to their
own experiences as well as
with universal meaning.
Close the book and think
outside the box.
4. Reading Beyond the
Lines (continued)
• Ask:
- “How does this text connect with
my life?”
- “How does it connect to life for
all people?”
- “How does it connect with my
ideas about morality or values?”
- What perceptions about life in
general is the author
communicating to me?”
- “What do I think of these
perceptions?”
5. Level One Question
What is Mr. Frank’s final
decision concerning Anne’s
diary?
A. Burn it
B. Publish it
C. Give it away
D. Read it to other students
What evidence from the text
proves Mr. Frank’s final
decision?
a. “we found them in a heap
of rubbish on the floor
after you left.”
b. “I’ve come to say goodbye
Miep”
c. “Only three years ago,
‘Dear Diary, since you and
I are going to be great
friends, I will start by
telling you about myself’”
d. “Burn them. All of them”
6. Level One Question
In Tell Tale Heart the narrator
sneaks into the old mans room
in the following manner…
a. Slowly
b. Hastily
c. Happily
d. Sadly
Which phrase from paragraph
8 supports the manner in
which the narrator snuck into
the old man’s room?
a. A watch’s minute hand
moves more quickly than
mine.
b. I fairly chuckled at the idea
c. The room was as black as
pitch.
d. I kept pushing it on
steadily, steadily.
7. Level Two Question
How does the old man feel about
the narrator in A Tell Tale Heart?
a. He hates his guts
b. He wishes he would leave
c. He trusts him
d. He wants to marry his sister
Which phrase from paragraph 10
supports how the old man feels
about the narrator?
a. “ loved the old man”
b. “ I went boldly into the
chamber, and spoke
courageously to him, calling
him by name in a hearty
tone.”
c. “ I knew it was a slight groan
of mortal terror. “
d. “ yes he had been trying to
comfort himself with these
suppositions, but he had
found all in vain.”
8. Level Three
Scaffolding Question
(With the text)
How does guilt affect the
narrator?
REAL LEVEL THREE
QUESTON
(Close the book and think
universally)
How does guilt affect
people (anywhere)?