In Mrs. Sunda's Language Arts class, we love to read! We have also been learning about Bloom's Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking Skills. As a class project to demonstrate our learning, we have created nine Literature Units for primary level reading books which promote the critical thinking skills of interpretation, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Each unit contains:

• Vocabulary Section ~ list of 15-20 words from the book

• Thinking Cap Section ~  20 questions or prompts that require children to "use their heads"

• Literary Section ~ a few questions or prompts pertaining to the elements of literature

• End-of-Book Projects ~ suggestions for writing assignments or other projects that tie into the book

• Internet Connection ~ a link to an Internet site that ties in with the story, plus a few questions or prompts to use while investigating the site

• Fun Sheet ~ crossword puzzle, word search or interactive quiz
  
  These Literature Units were created by fourth and fifth grade students in a Gifted Resource Class, for use by other students in second through fourth grades. Each complete unit is in Microsoft Word format and may be downloaded as a zipped file. You can also view a sample of each book's Thinking Cap questions.

We hope you enjoy our Literature Units. Enjoy!

Also, if you have time, check out some of the other web projects created by Mrs. Sunda's Gifted Resource Classes.

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Thank you for visiting our Literature Studies web page. Teachers, if you are interested in the lesson plan for this project, including an instructional PowerPoint presentation about Bloom's Taxonomy, project requirements, and grading rubrics, click here.

If you have more time, please visit our class web page. 
We welcome any questions or comments, so please email us.

Literature Units created and posted April 2001