It was great meeting up in the City of Sails at a super venue, the KPMG buildings. From student data I felt I needed to take a step back to consider how lower order questioning helps students gain a basic entry level for understanding the text. The challenge has been changing my mindset from engaging with higher order thinking skills, to inference and/or lower order skills. I feel I am still not there yet on the concept I want to tackle with my Year 9/10 learners. I decided to research into bringing all my ideas together to analyse what might be happening. Heres what I found out:
When I analysed The Pedagogy Wheel V5 against Sheena Cameron's Reading Comprehension Strategies (2009), most of these reading strategies sit at the lower level of Bloom's taxonomy: remember and understand:
- Predicting - can set the purpose for reading;
- Visualising - can support self-monitoring (meta cognition); and
- Synthesising - can create ownership of thinking.