Levels of Questions
QAR Strategy –
Question/Answer Relationship
What action is
usually associated
with this color?
Green
Means
GO!!!
Level One:
Right There
The answer is right there
in the text.
 It does not require the
students to think, only to
read and find the answer
which is RIGHT THERE!!
LEVEL 1
RIGHT THERE
Blooms Level Associated
with Level 1
Knowledge
Comprehension
What action is
usually associated
with this color?
Yellow Means
SLOW
DOWN!
LEVEL 2
SEARCH & FIND
• The information to answer the
question is found in the passage.
• It may require the students to look
in more than one place to find the
answer OR to make an inference
based on what they read.
• They have to SEARCH the passage
to FIND the answer.
LEVEL 2:
SEARCH & FIND
Blooms Level Associated
with Level 2
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
What action is
usually associated
with this color?
Red
means
STOP!!
Level 3: Author and Me
• The answers to these questions are not
found in the passage.
• The questions require the students to take
what the author has given them and use
what they know to take it a step further.
• They must go beyond the text to get an
answer.
• They must STOP and think.
LEVEL 3
AUTHOR & ME
Blooms Level Associated
with Level 3
•Application
•Analysis
•Synthesis
What does
this picture
represent?
Water:
Free
flowing
LEVEL 4:
ON MY OWN
oThese questions are opinion
based.
oThe answers to these
questions are not found in
the passage, they are found
within the student.
oThese are opinion based
questions. What would you
do, how would you feel, etc.
LEVEL 4
ON MY OWN
Blooms Level Associated
with Level 4
•Evaluation
Examples of questions from
“Officials crack down on boozeserving parents”
Level 1 Right There:
According to American Medical
Association, how many teens reported
that it is easy to obtain alcohol from
their parents?
Level 2 Search & Find
Give 2 tragedies from the article that
occurred because of parents serving
alcohol to high school teens.
Questions Continued
Level 3 Author & Me:
What effect would the social hosting
law have on the STA community if it
was truly enforced?
Level 4 On My Own:
In what ways can law enforcement
and citizens help to improve
enforcement of the social hosting
law?
Your Turn
• Take the passage you brought
today and create a question
at each level:
–Level 1: Right There
–Level 2: Search and Find
–Level 3: Author & Me
–Level 4: On My Own