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Think alouds are carefully structured models of how effective strategy users think
and monitor their understandings.
Purpose: to model for students how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.
An example is when a teacher is previewing a chapter, he or she will talk aloud to
the class. The teacher may ask questions aloud like, What is the main concept Im
supposed to learn? The big bold heading at the top of the page may help me. Other
page headings may help me figure out what I am supposed to learn too.
Reinforcing Contextual definitions
Over 40 years ago, Bloom and his colleagues introduced a taxonomy of educational
objectives that includes six levels: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application,
Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
This taxonomy was created on the principle that learning proceeds from concrete
knowledge to abstract values.
In 2001, D.R Krathwohl and his colleagues published a revised taxonomy called
Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Blooms Taxonomy
of Educational Objectives.
Revised Taxonomy
The six levels in the revised taxonomy include: Remember, Understand, Apply,
Analyze, Evaluate, and Create.
In both taxonomies, it is important for the teacher to implement higher order
thinking questions.
Researchers have found that of the approximately 80,000 questions the average
teacher asks annually, 80 percent are at the Literal or Knowledge level. This is
especially a problem for English Language Learner students. ELL students need to
be asked more higher order and complex questions- not merely simple questions
that result in yes/no or one word responses.
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