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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-02-08 10:40 PM
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80. Our school starts with literature groups in the early years.
In fact, my youngest started in a librarian-run literature group in kindergarten. He was an advanced reader, but the lit group was for 1st graders who were advanced readers, so we're not talking 4th grade here.

The teachers use Bloom's Taxonomy and ask questions that move the kids from the first three categories of Bloom's and into the last three categories. The last three categories are analysis, synthesis and evaluation and the theory goes that these are the categories that help teach the higher order thinking skills.

The literature groups are great to sit in on through grade school. Beyond that, I don't know because my kids are still in grade school. Our high school is a college-prep school (public) and the drop out rate is nil. How the early work translates to the higher grades isn't something I've experienced yet, but the school is rated as an exceptional school (not that I enjoy the kids having to test, but the teachers definitely don't teach to the test).
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