Scaffolding Content Instruction for English Learners with DOK and Bloom’s Taxonomy

From the January MUSD English Learner Newsletter...

Scaffolding Content Instruction for English Learners with DOK and Bloom’s Taxonomy

 This guide provides teachers a tool to scaffold instruction for

         English learners organized by proficiency levels to target

         questions and responses with the support of sentence frames.

         Based on Bloom 's Taxonomy of higher order thinking skills,

         these supports develop oral language and writing development

         in remembering, comprehending, applying, analyzing,

         evaluating, and creating. Questions and sentence writing

         frames modeled by the teacher can help English learners:

• Assess, understand and master critical academic concepts
• Increase acquisition of academic language
• Move beyond simple assignments of recalling information to higher level thinking tasks, such as analysis, evaluation, and creating.

              Click here to view the Scaffolding tool.

              

              If you would like a copy of the tool, please contact Catherine Waslif

              cwaslif@musd.org at ext. 6014.