Thinking Skill Students will be able to: Sample Tasks/Questions Distinguishing identify the different perspectives Identify how different characters relate to different within the text and/or among the a specific event in the story. perspectives readers of the text. How does your understanding of the characters’ actions/events in the story change as you read? Do you share the same perspective as the narrator? Explain. How does your understanding of the story/the character/the scene differ from other students in your class? make judgments about different aspects What makes this a good story? Explain. Evaluating of the text and justify opinions. Is ___ a believable character? Explain. Is the resolution of the conflict satisfying? Explain. Explaining describe and explain the causal What were the results of ___’s action? cause and relationships between actions or events What caused ___ to think that ___? effect in a text. Explaining identify and explain different patterns in Explain why certain lines/phrases/words patterns the text and explain their significance. are repeated. What behavior does the character repeat? Generating generate alternatives and/or create new Create a new character for the story and possibilities and/or expand on existing ideas, explain how s/he will affect the based on information from the text. development (or outcome) of the Identifying explain how the parts function together How does one part of the story contribute story. parts and within the whole text. Add to an your element/an understanding event to of the the existing whole whole text? text that influences the development How and/or does the the title/ending outcome of the relate plot. to different parts of the text? Higher-Order Thinking Skills (continued)
Thinking Skill Students will be able to: Sample Tasks/Questions Distinguishing different perspectives identify the different perspectives within the text and/or among the readers of the text. Identify how different characters relate to a specific event in the story. How does your understanding of the characters’ actions/events in the story change as you read? Do you share the same perspective as the narrator? Explain. How does your understanding of the story/the character/the scene differ from other students in your class? Evaluating make judgments about different aspects of the text and justify opinions. What makes this a good story? Explain. Is ___ a believable character? Explain. Is the resolution of the conflict satisfying? Explain. Explaining cause and effect describe and explain the causal relationships between actions or events in a text. What were the results of ___’s action? What caused ___ to think that ___? Explaining patterns identify and explain different patterns in the text and explain their significance. Explain why certain lines/phrases/words are repeated. What behavior does the character repeat? Generating possibilities generate alternatives and/or create new and/or expand on existing ideas, based on information from the text. Create a new character for the story and explain how s/he will affect the development (or outcome) of the story. Add an element/an event to the existing text that influences the development and/or the outcome of the plot. Identifying parts and whole explain how the parts function together within the whole text. How does one part of the story contribute to your understanding of the whole text? How does the title/ending relate to different parts of the text? Higher-Order Thinking Skills (continued)