Blooming Categories Activities +++BESTSELLER
Lynn Flahive and Janet Lanza
Ages 3-8
The seventeen units Blooming Category Activities are chockfull of hands-on activities designed to make learning meaningful and fun. Help your students’ vocabulary bloom with age-appropriate categories such as animals, holidays, and musical instruments. Your students will grow their word knowledge based on categories, engage in conversation that promotes teaching and learning, and develop high-level thinking skills using the hierarchy presented in Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
Each unit has seven major components:
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Project: describes and pictures a recipe, craft, role-play, or play-based activity that forms the basis for many components of the unit
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Picture Cards: twenty-seven cards that picture vocabulary from the targeted category
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Family Letter: letter to the family that introduces the category and gives examples of ways to elicit the vocabulary at home
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Activities: a page of fun, interactive activities to elicit the targeted category-related vocabulary
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Worksheet: designed to increase receptive understanding and expressive use of the vocabulary
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Concepts: basic concept words are targeted in a category-related worksheet or craft
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Bloom’s Taxonomy Questions: three to four questions at each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy that target higher level thinking skills
Published 2006, 190 Pages, Large Softcover Format
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