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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies Lesson PlanOut of the Dust: Questioning Strategies Lesson Plan
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3rd - 7th
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English Language Arts
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2007
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies

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Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

forming questions, reading strategies, reading comprehension strategies, short answer questions

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the question template for any short story or novel
  • Have kids complete their book reports by creating questions using Bloom's Taxonomy, and answering the questions they write

Classroom Considerations

  • Discusses other questioning strategies besides Bloom's Taxonomy, but does not include explanations or examples

Pros

  • Versatile for use in any lesson
  • Provides examples to help you write your own questions, as well as potential sentence starters for each level

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.3.1 RL.4.1 RL.5.1 RL.6.1

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