Higher+Order+Thinking+Skills

Level** ||  ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Knowledge

**Use these question cues:**
 * The skills demonstrated at this level are**
 * || **observation and recall of information** ||
 * || **knowledge of dates, events, and places** ||
 * || **knowledge of major ideas** ||
 * || **mastery of subject matter** ||


 * **List** ||  || **Define** ||   || **Tell** ||   || **Describe** ||   || **Identify** ||


 * **Show** ||  || **Label** ||   || **Collect** ||   || **Examine** ||   || **Tabulate** ||


 * **Quote** ||  || **Name** ||   || **Who** ||   || **When** ||   || **Where** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop this knowledge level of thinking. Try them with the next story or chapter that you have your students read. Remember that this is the basic knowledge level, you will be sure there is success at this level if the students can complete these activities.**


 * **List main characteristics for each of the main characters.** ||


 * **Match character names with pictures of the characters.** ||


 * **Identify the main characters in a crossword puzzle.** ||


 * **Arrange scrambled story pictures in sequential order.** ||


 * **Recall details about the setting by creating a picture of where a part of the story took place.** ||


 * **Match statements with the characters who said them.** ||


 * **Arrange scrambled story sentences in sequential order.** ||


 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Comprehension Level** ||  || [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] ||

**The skills demonstrated at this level are:**


 * || **interpretation of facts, compare, contrast** ||
 * || **order, group, and infer causes** ||
 * || **predict consequences** ||
 * || **understanding information** ||
 * || **grasping meaning** ||
 * || **translation of knowledge into new context** ||

**Use these question cues:**
 * **Explain** ||  || **Discuss** ||   || **Compare** ||   || **Extend** ||


 * **Interpret** ||  || **Predict** ||   || **Describe** ||   || **Contrast** ||


 * **Outline** ||  || **Restate** ||   || **Summarize** ||   || **Distinguish** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop the comprehension level of thinking. Try them with the next story or chapter that you have your students read. This level provides the child with an opportunity to demonstrate a basic understanding of the story.**
 * **Interpret pictures of scenes from the story.** ||


 * **Explain selected ideas or parts from the story in his or her own words.** ||


 * **Draw a picture showing what happened before and after a passage or illustration.** ||


 * **Write a sentence explaining what happened before and after a passage or illustration.** ||


 * **Predict what could happen next in the story before the reading of the entire book.** ||


 * **Construct a pictorial time line which summarizes what happens in the story.** ||


 * **Explain how the main character felt at the beginning, middle and end of the story.** ||


 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Application Level** ||  || [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] ||

**The skills demonstrated at this level are:** **Use these question cues:**
 * || **use information** ||
 * || **use methods, concepts, theories in new situations** ||
 * || **solve problems using required skills or knowledge** ||
 * **Apply** ||  || **Demonstrate** ||   || **Calculate** ||   || **Complete** ||


 * **Illustrate** ||  || **Show** ||   || **Solve** ||   || **Examine** ||


 * **Modify** ||  || **Relate** ||   || **Change** ||   || **Classify** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop the application level of thinking. Try them with the next story or chapter that you have your students read. This level provides the child with an opportunity to use information from the story in a new way. Try these!**
 * **Classify the characters as human, animal, or thing.** ||


 * **Transfer a main character to a new setting.** ||


 * **Make finger puppets and act out a part of the story.** ||


 * **Select a meal one of the characters would enjoy, plan a menu, and explain why you chose what you did.** ||


 * **Think of a situation that occurred to a character and write how you would have handled it differently.** ||


 * **Give examples of people the child knows who have the same problems as the characters in the story.** ||


 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Analysis Level** ||  || [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] ||

**The skills demonstrated at this level are:**


 * || **seeing patterns** ||
 * || **organization of part** ||
 * || **recognition of hidden meanings** ||
 * || **identification of components** ||

**Use these question cues:**
 * **Analyze** ||  || **Explain** ||   || **Arrange** ||   || **Select** ||


 * **Separate** ||  || **Connect** ||   || **Divide** ||   || **Infer** ||


 * **Order** ||  || **Classify** ||   || **Compare** ||   || **Debate** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop this analysis level of thinking. They will provide the child with an opportunity to take parts of the story and examine them to better understand the whole story. Try these ideas.**
 * **Identify general characteristics (main or implied) of the main characters.** ||


 * **Distinguish what could happen from what couldn't happen in the story in real life.** ||


 * **Select parts of the story that were funniest, saddest, happiest, and most unbelievable.** ||


 * **Differentiate fact from opinion.** ||


 * **Compare and/or contrast two of the main characters.** ||


 * **Select an action of a main character that was exactly the same as something the child would have done.** ||


 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Synthesis Level** ||  || [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] ||

**The skills demonstrated at this level are:**


 * || **generalize from given facts** ||
 * || **relate knowledge from several areas** ||
 * || **predict, draw conclusions** ||
 * || **use old ideas to create new ones** ||

**Use these question cues:**
 * **Combine** ||  || **Rearrange** ||   || **Create** ||   || **What if?** ||   || **Rewrite** ||


 * **Integrate** ||  || **Substitute** ||   || **Design** ||   || **Compose** ||   || **Prepare** ||


 * **Modify** ||  || **Plan** ||   || **Invent** ||   || **Formulate** ||   || **Generalize** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop this synthesis level of thinking. They will provide the child with an opportunity to put parts from the story together in a new way to formulate a new idea or invent a new product. Try these ideas.**
 * **Create a story from just the title** //**before**// **the story is read. Use this as a pre-reading exercise.** ||


 * **Rewrite several new titles for the story.** ||


 * **Advertise the story on a poster to make people want to read it.** ||


 * **Restructure the roles of the main characters to create new outcomes in the story.** ||


 * **Imagine that you are the main character and write a diary account of your daily thoughts and activities.** ||


 * **Create an original character and weave him/her into the existing story.** ||


 * **Write the lyrics and music to a song that one of the characters would have sung and perform it.** ||


 * [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] || **Evaluation Level** ||  || [[image:http://www.mcsk12.net/schools/peabody.es/hots/babe8.gif width="55" height="74" align="center" caption="external image babe8.gif"]] ||

**The skills demonstrated at this level are:**


 * || **assess value of theories** ||
 * || **make choices based on reasoned arguments** ||
 * || **verify value of evidence** ||
 * || **recognize subjectivity** ||
 * || **compare and discriminate between ideas** ||

**Use these question cues:**
 * **Assess** ||  || **Grade** ||   || **Recommend** ||   || **Judge** ||


 * **Decide** ||  || **Test** ||   || **Convince** ||   || **Support** ||


 * **Rank** ||  || **Measure** ||   || **Select** ||   || **Conclude** ||

**These are some great ideas for activities that will develop this evaluation level of thinking. They will provide the child with an opportunity to form and present an opinion backed up by sound reasoning. Try these on your students.**
 * **Decide which character in the story you would most like to spend a day with and why** ||


 * **Judge whether or not a character should have acted as they did.** ||


 * **Decide if the story really could have happened and justify why.** ||


 * **Consider how this story can help the child in his or her own life** ||


 * **Appraise the value of the story.** ||


 * **Compare this story with another one the child has read.** ||


 * **Write a recommendation as to why the book should be read by others or not.** ||