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Bloom's Taxonomy Stems

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2002

The following should help you develop ideas for questions to ask during the read-aloud session to students in advanced grade levels.


Application

•	Who would you choose...?
•	What would happen if...?
•	How would you...?
•	Do you know someone like...?
•	Would you do the same thing in the same situation...?
•	If you had to...what would you do?


Analysis

•	What part of the reading was funniest?
•	What part was the most exciting?
•	What part was the saddest?
•	Tell some things that could not have happened in real life.
•	Which things were fact, and which were opinions?
•	What could you do that was just like what the person in the story did?
•	Find five words in the story which begin with the same sound.
•	List five compound words from the story.
•	What was the purpose of...?


Synthesis

•	Retell one event from an animal's point of view.
•	How could we/you...?
•	Make up another ending to the story that still fits the details.
•	Rewrite a sentence from the reading but change one thing in it.
•	Write a new title for this story.
•	Write a two-line poem about the reading.


Evaluation

•	Was the main character in this reading good or bad? Why?
•	Which is better...?
•	Would you agree that...?
•	What is your opinion of...?
•	Were they right to do...? Why? Or why not?
•	Compare two characters in the reading. Tell which one you think is better and why.