Way back in 1956 Benjamin Bloom led a group of educators in devising a taxonomy of educational objectives. Bloom's Taxonomy orders and ranks different levels of thinking. Our students should be challenged to work on the higher levels of the Taxonomy, the levels of Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
We make sure to ask our fourth graders difficult, probing question at the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy for every story we read. This week, students were asked to compare and contrast characters from two different stories, create a new title for a story and explain why they chose that title, and to make a prediction about what will happen to a character and why.
Homework for today:
1. Spelling practice test (words are on p. 60)
2. Math Miss W: PW57
Mr. Spaulding: PW88
3. Read for half an hour.
4. Get parent initials.
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