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Maine Learning Technology Initiative and Bloom's Taxonomy
The Secret School by AVI, historical fiction set in the 20s in Colorado, that I would use for grades 4-8. The Scholastic copy I recently bought has Literature Circle questions - which are keyed to Bloom's taxonomy (Critical thinking levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation).
Suggestions for using this guide, in addition to the usual literature circle use:
1. Show the questions to teachers as a model for developing their own questions about other books.
2. Note how your students do at the different question levels on the MEAs. Help your teachers develop in-class questions to increase student practice in the weakest area.
3. Show the questions to your library classes (or students at any time you can reach them!) Suggest that they develop the same type of Bloom's keyed questions for their favorite book. With the student's permission (good copyright law lesson) display the student developed questions, even adding them to your card catalog listing on that book.
A brief overview of Bloom's taxonomy:
http://www.maslibraries.org/infolit/samplers/spring/appC.html
Following links provide more information and suggestions for questions
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
http://theliterarylink.com/bloom_questions.html
http://eec1.scedk12.com/edu/res/questioness.htm
Nancy Grant
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