Excerpt. The Ultimate Purple Notebook

The Ultimate Purple Notebook
Gilmour, Joyce
Chase, L.P.
ISBN 13: 978-1-897381-09-0
Paperback; spiral bound; 7 x 10

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The Ultimate Purple Notebook

Educator’s Resource Guide

By: Joyce Gilmour
and L.P. Chase


PART I

Activities for writing assignments and discussion
are based on the educational concepts of
Benjamin Bloom and Bloom’s Taxonomy.


Part One: Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Make Literature Connections

The first section of The Ultimate Purple Notebook is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999), an educational psychologist, developed a six level classification for intellectual development. This has been put into a system of questioning from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation. Bloom found that over 95% of the test questions students encountered required them to think only at the lowest possible level, that of the recall of information. By using these Literature Connections you will be assured of increasing your students’ thinking way beyond the knowledge level.

Of course there are many possibilities for ways to use these Literature Connections with your students. Choice of questions could be given to the students, choosing one question from each level. Students could also work cooperatively to get more interaction and discussion. Teachers could choose activities according to the individual or class needs. Some questions could be optional while teachers assign others. The possibilities are endless. We are providing the questions and activities knowing that teachers can find a variety of ways to incorporate them into their lesson plans. Our hope is that children will find literature (Elliot Stone and the Mystery of the Alien Mom) more rewarding when they are given many opportunities to experience personal connections………..