Levels of Questioning

At the beginning of the year I have been busy teaching my students about Questioning. We're studying Bloom's Taxonomy and they're beginning to grasp it.

We started out last week by reading a short article I found online.  We focused just on a few paragraphs that helped us to understand what Bloom's Taxonomy is and what the levels were.  Then we moved onto the real study of the different levels of questioning.

Students learned a little song and they've really enjoyed singing it and taking turns singing it in class (volunteers only for singing it alone).

I did find that some of my students were a bit confused about the homework/practice and we had to go back.  I think this is because I didn't explain the directions very well.  We lost time the day before due to assemblies and I was trying to make up for it.  Next time I'll just push it back a day if I need to so they have enough time to fully understand the directions and what I'm asking them to do.

Right now we're about to start working on the posters that will be posted in my room.  I'm actually going to have a contest next week and let the students vote on the best overall posters in each level.  I think they'll enjoy it.  I'll have my two highest posters go up.  One in the hall and the other in my room.  The room will be permanent and the ones in the hall will join my room later on in October.

They are completing the posters in groups this week. I can't wait to show you the results! 

I have my unit posted on my TpT store. Here is the link!

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Literary Terms: A Plan for the Year

I have busy working over here, only not in my room...

Don't worry...I'll get to it!  There are three entire weeks left until kids start back.  Plenty of time!!

So what have I been working on?  As you may know, I've started a TpT store and I 've been going back through some of my lesson plans and vamping them up.  Making little corrections, putting pretty background on them, and writing them into more detailed instructions--with lots of suggestions for alternatives.

Over the weekend I posted my first unit.  It's called Bloom's Level of Questioning and it's a starter unit for the year, with the intention that you'll continue to go back to those ideas throughout.  It's laying the foundation for a classroom filled with students' questions.  Students who learn to create questions, will be better readers and thinkers.

We start with the basics of understanding what each of those levels means, then move onto the blooms verbs.  Students learn which of these verbs will match up the levels.  We focus on the HOT levels more as the school year progresses, but throughout the year we will go back.

There will also be a board and I'm looking forward to creating that with student work and then referring back to it as we get further into the year!

Check out the preview!