Barrett’s Taxonomy is a guide with five levels that helps teachers create questions to improve students’ reading comprehension. It encourages students to recall ideas, explain them, analyze them, organize them in sequence, and create their own interpretations, which the teacher then appreciates to support their emotional and psychological growth. The five levels are: 1. Literal Comprehension 2. Reorganization 3. Inferential Comprehension 4. Evaluation 5. Appreciation Recommended Activities to Develop Comprehension Skills: 1. Literal Comprehension: • Activity: Ask students to answer direct “who, what, when, where” questions about a text. • Example: “What happened at the end of the story?” 2. Reorganization: • Activity: Provide students with mixed-up story events and ask them to put them in the correct order. • Example: “Arrange these events in the order they happened.” 3. Inferential Comprehension: • Activity: Have students guess a character’s feelings or predict what might happen next based on clues in the text. • Example: “Why do you think the character acted this way?” 4. Evaluation: • Activity: Encourage students to share their opinions about a story and justify their thoughts. • Example: “Do you agree with the character’s decision? Why or why not?” 5. Appreciation: • Activity: Ask students to write or draw how the story made them feel or which part they liked the most. • Example: “What message do you think the story is trying to share?”
Very informative
Absolutely love this insight! Where I currently work, School Based Assessments (SBAs) are our most fundamental tool for assessing comprehension questions set by teachers. Using the levels in the SBAs not only stretches learners' critical thinking skills but also allows them to score across different levels (L1-L5). Thanks for sharing!
Insightful
Aduojo Dan
4d
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Komal Sapra
5d
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5dInformative. How does align with Blooms taxonomy?