1. Including ELL Students Using Bloom’s Taxonomy

2. Involving ELL Students
Leaders of a school should implement activities that celebrate diversity.
Assemblies and community workshops
Make staff aware of strategies to incorporate cultural awareness in the classroom.
Can use levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy’s

3. Level 1: Knowledge level of questioning
pre-production and beginning production levels of English language
Yes/No answers
Pictures, drawings
Text questions
What did Pa Lia do during Math Class?

4. Level 2: Comprehension
Student has understood the facts and can interpret.
compare, contrast, illustrate, and classify
Venn Diagrams and T-charts
Compare Calliope with Howie. Use the word bank.

5. Level 3: Application
Learning to solve problems by using previously learned facts.
Need scaffolding and word banks to build, choose, construct, develop and organize.
Can you list the ways you could make a new student feel welcome?

6. Level 4: Analysis
May not have enough vocabulary and language to express responses in English.
Classify, contrast, compare, categorize, sequence.
Compare Pa Lia's feelings at the beginning of the story with her feelings at the end of the story.

7. Level 5: Synthesis
Students are compiling information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions.
Students may be able to choose, combine, create, design, develop, imagine, make up, predict, solve, and change.
Can you invent another character for the story?

8. Level 6: Evaluation Modify questions by simplifying the language.
ELL students give opinions, make judements about the action in a story.
What would you do if you were Pa Lia and the teachger was angry with you?