Including ELL Students Using Blooms Taxonomy Involving ELL
Including ELL Students Using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Involving ELL Students • Leaders of a school should implement activities that celebrate diversity. – Assemblies and community workshops • Make staff aware of strategies to incorporate cultural awareness in the classroom. • Can use levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy’s
Level 1: Knowledge • level of questioning – pre-production and beginning production levels of English language • Yes/No answers • Pictures, drawings • Text questions • What did Pa Lia do during Math Class?
Level 2: Comprehension • Student has understood the facts and can interpret. – compare, contrast, illustrate, and classify • Venn Diagrams and T-charts – Compare Calliope with Howie. Use the word bank.
Level 3: Application • Learning to solve problems by using previously learned facts. • Need scaffolding and word banks to build, choose, construct, develop and organize. – Can you list the ways you could make a new student feel welcome?
Level 4: Analysis • May not have enough vocabulary and language to express responses in English. • Classify, contrast, compare, categorize, sequence. • Compare Pa Lia's feelings at the beginning of the story with her feelings at the end of the story.
Level 5: Synthesis • Students are compiling information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions. • Students may be able to choose, combine, create, design, develop, imagine, make up, predict, solve, and change. • Can you invent another character for the story?
Level 6: Evaluation • Modify questions by simplifying the language. • ELL students give opinions, make judements about the action in a story. • What would you do if you were Pa Lia and the teachger was angry with you?
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