“Digging” to Understand Reading Strategies
Today in class students continued to practice the reading strategies that Mrs. Scales demonstrated in class on Monday, They also learned about Bloom’s Taxonomy, the guide to levels of cognition. This was in support of our first Habit of Mind – Metacognition or Thinking about Thinking. Bloom’s Taxonomy identifies the kinds of thinking that you must do as students in class. Learning this taxonomy will help you become more aware of the levels of abstraction you are focusing on when reading text.
Because good readers ask questions of text all the time, we learned three classifications of questions associated with Bloom’s Taxonomy:
- Literal – “right-there” questions
- Interpretive – “pulling-it-together” questions
- Evaluative – “author-to-me” or “on-my-own” question
Class time was given to complete the “Digging” questions. Most groups were able to get the first page completed, but needed more time to complete the second page. Therefore groups were told they would have time tomorrow to finish the packet before it is collected for grading.
