Bloom's Taxonomy
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Blooming Orange: Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster

Here’s a helpful poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom’s higher-order thinking skills with your children. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts.

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This poster only shows seven verbs per segment when there is many more that could be added. By including just seven in each segment would make them easier to remember for children.

It is interesting to depict the verbs in a circular form as opposed to a hierarchical list, given that these skills don’t often occur in isolation and are interconnected. 


This organiser is very child friendly and great for visual learners. An example for how you use this in a classroom would be linking it to the writing stages e.g. using the verbs when planing writing 


"When we are planning our writing we are going to be thinking like what segment of our orange?.....If we are creating a piece of writing what things do we do, looking at our blooming orange poster? create, invent, compose, plan, design, imagine, construct. 

Blooms Taxonomy Teacher Planning Kit 

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This TES Resource is a useful guide when writing learning outcomes or ‘success criteria’ for a session. It also provides a handy list of questions which could be used to check the learning taking place in the session.

Pdf of teaching planning kit

Revised edition of Blooms for 21st Century learners

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During the 1990′s, a former student of Bloom’s, Lorin Anderson updated the taxonomy to add relevance for 21st century students and teachers. Published in 2001, the revision includes several seemingly minor yet actually quite significant changes. . The changes occur in three broad categories: terminology, structure, and emphasis.

Changes in terminology between the two versions are perhaps the most obvious differences and can also cause the most confusion. Basically, Bloom's six major categories were changed from noun to verb forms. Additionally, the lowest level of the original, knowledge was renamed and became remembering. Finally, comprehension and synthesis were retitled to understanding and creating. In an effort to minimize the confusion, comparison images appear below.

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