Level Three Questions (Experience Based) Readers think beyond what the text states. Answers are based on reader’s prior knowledge &experience and will vary. Words found in these questions include: Level 3 Statement Predict how Charlie Gordon will change his operation in Flowers for Algernon. (English) Imagine you were a soldier fighting in the Civil War. How would you feel? (History) Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to the find the measurement of this triangle. (Math) Diagram the stages of photosynthesis and predict how long each takes. (Science) Academic Conversation with Prompts To help you focus on key questions, main idea, theme, topic, of a discussion or blog, use this resource to guide your answers and questions of others ideas. Communication Skills Prompting Responding Elaborate & Clarify Can you elaborate on ___? What do you mean by ___? Can you tell me more about _____? What you think that? Can you clarify the part _______? Can you be more specific? How so? I’d love to hear more about _____. How does that connect to ___? I wonder if … Can you unpack that for me? (explain your thought process) I am a little confused about the part.... How/Why is that important? of course, without judgment!) I think it means that …. In other words …. I believe that …. An analogy for this might be …. It is important because it is similar to when …. Support Ideas with Examples (from this text, other texts, the world, or life) Can you given an example from the text? Can you show me where it says _____? According to the author … One case showed … An example from my life… For instance …
What are some examples from other texts? What is a real-world example? What is an example from your life? Are any cases of ___? What is the evidence for ___? Why do you say ___? How would you justify ___? What illustrate ___? According to … An illustration of this could be … In this situation … To demonstrate … In fact, … Have you ever …? Academic Conversation w/Prompts, cont Conversation Skills Prompting Responding Paraphrase I’m not sure I understand … I can’t remember exactly what I said, but the gist … How can the information presented relate to the topic or question? What do we know so far? How would you put what was just said/read in your own words? Did ____ make sense? So, you are saying that … Let me see if I understand you … Am I in hearing you say ….? In a nutshell, your argument is … In other words … What I’m hearing is … Essentially you think … It sounds like you are saying … On and/or Challenge a Partner’s Idea What do you think about the idea of … How would you add to this idea? Do you What might be other points of view? What are other ideas? How does that connect to the idea … I would add … I want to expand on your point about … To add to your idea of … Then I think that … Another way to look at this be … Yet I wonder also if … If ________, then ______ What struck me what you said … Synthesize Conversation Points What have we discussed so far? How should we synthesize what we covered? We can say … The main theme/point seems to be
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