1. Franklin School Presents: A Family Literacy Workshop Help Your Child BLOOM into a Better Thinker April 4, 2012

2. "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

3. Overview of the Workshop  What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?  Explore the six levels  How to use the levels at home  Work with a teacher Design questions for each level Share discoveries

4. Remembering Can the child recall or remember information?

5. Remembering Activities List of main ideas Recite a poem Make a chart Make a timeline List five new words you learned

6. Understanding Can the child explain ideas or concepts?

7. Understanding Activities Write a summary Sequence the events Predict an outcome Make a cartoon strip Illustrate some aspect of the story

8. Applying Can the child use information in a new way?

9. Applying Activities Write a letter recommending this book Change the ending of the story Lesson learned applied to real life Write a journal entry from the point of view of one of the characters

10. Analyzing Can the child break information into parts to explore understandings and relationships?

11. Analyzing Activities Compare and contrast characters Tell five ways the main character is like you Analyze a character’s behavior Design a questionnaire to gather information

12. Evaluating Can a child give evidence to support a decision or an answer?

13. Evaluating Activities Is the title a good one for the book…defend your position Name the character you would most likely be friends with…defend your position Tell about the most exciting part of the book…defend your position

14. Creating Can the student generate new products, ideas,or ways of viewing things?

15. Creating Activities Rewrite a story using a different setting and/or different characters Compose music for this book Design costumes for the characters Write a short story using the same characters

16. Goldilocks and the Three Bears Remembering: List the items that Goldilocks tried while she was in the three bears’ house. Understanding: Explain why Goldilocks did not like the Papa Bear’s bed. Applying: Perform a skit about what would happen if Goldilocks came to your house. Analyzing: Compare this story to reality. What parts of the story could not really happen? Evaluating: Do you agree with what Goldilocks did? Why or why not? Creating: Rewrite the story with the title, “Goldilocks and the Three Chimps.”

17. Learning is a consequence of thinking. From Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child By David Perkins 1992 New York: Free Press

18. 21 st Century Learners Must Develop the Skills Most Necessary for Success in the 21 st Century Workplace… Good communication skills Ability to work in teams Ability to build relationships 2008 Ohio Labor Task Force

19. Every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their own minds, someone will do it for them. Eleanor Roosevelt From Reading is Thinking 2011 by Stephanie Harvey New York Reading Comprehension Institute

20. Family Literacy Night Principal of Franklin School: Mr. Seamus Regan Presented by Joanne Mickolajczyk, Reading Specialist Table Leaders/Childcare Providers: Donna Jones-Schmidt, Kindergarten Teacher Candice Groves, Kindergarten Teacher Christine LaMotta, Kindergarten Teacher Sherry Manning, 2 nd Grade Teacher Ellen Porter, 2 nd Grade Teacher Elyse Joseph, 3 rd Grade Teacher Anna Garella, 4 th Grade Teacher Lois Saland, Special Education Teacher Sheryl Hoffman, Basic Skills Teacher Bergenfield High School Honor Society Students