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Adding movement to reading lessons reinforces key concepts and helps fidgety students concentrate.

Five minutes into our reading lesson, as my students and I quickly returned to our seats after doing our slightly modified push-ups, I took a moment to observe the joy I saw on their faces.

You might be wondering, "Push-ups during a reading lesson?"

Yes! We did push-ups on a regular basis during reading. We also did squats, lunges, dips, jumping jacks, and more. When I started teaching reading, I had a very active group of struggling students. Because of their struggles, many of my students mentally checked out when it came time for reading. I knew I needed to get the blood flowing to their brains, get them excited, and use their bodies to learn. That was when I added full-body movement.

Push-Ups and Phonemic Awareness

The push-ups were part of our phonemic awareness activities. We know that phonemic awareness is a critical element in learning to read. It helps strengthen important neural pathways in the brain that provide a foundation for decoding as well as orthographic mapping of words.

That day, one of the students had chosen push-ups as the way he wanted to segment the phonemes in the word ship. That meant that our first push-up had three stops on the way up. We pushed up a third of the way and said "/sh/." We pushed a little farther and said "/i/." Then, as we completed the push-up, we all said "/p/." For the second push-up, we blended the word using one strong push-up and said "Ship!"

Because of its importance, phonemic awareness was the start of every reading lesson. Plastic eggs are perfect for this push-up activity. Before class, I put items or pictures in about five plastic eggs. Five students (I keep a running checklist so that everyone gets a chance) picked an egg out of a hat. Then, one by one, we went through this routine. One student opened her egg and told us what was inside.

I ask, "How many sounds (phonemes) are in the word boat?"

She responds by saying, "There are three sounds in boat."

"What are they?"

"/b/ /o/ /t/"

Then I ask, "How do you want to show the sounds?" That's where the movement or kinesthetic part comes in. Some students just want to tap the sounds out on their arms or nose, but others want to do push-ups, dips, lunges, squats, and more. I keep a list of ideas on the board. We put a star by the ones that are used that day-otherwise, my arms get sore from doing so many push-ups!

The student says, "Squats!" The entire class gets out of their seats and squats low to the ground. In that position, we say "/b/." Then we move about halfway up and say "/o/." Finally, we stand all the way up and say "/t/."

After that, we blend it. So, we squat low and jump up while saying "Boat!"

Next, depending on the skill level of the student, I have them identify, delete, or substitute the initial, final, or medial sound in the word. We do one more set of the movements with the response. In this situation, I might ask, "Change the /t/ in boat to /n/ and tell me the new word."

The student (and class) might use the modified squat again to figure it out. Moving up with each sound: "/b/ /o/ /n/." Then, the entire class would squat low and jump up, saying "Bone!"

Imagine a student pulling out a toy boat.

Rhyming and Moving

If my students were not cognitively ready for phonemic awareness, we worked on other phonological awareness skills, like rhyming or playing with syllables. We used the same types of movements for syllable segmentation, identification, substitution, or deletion as we did for phonemes.

For rhyming, I had students shift their weight from their left foot to their right foot for the rhyme. Moving from left to right helps reinforce the orientation of reading from left to right. The students say the onset (beginning) of their rhyme with their weight on their left foot and the rime (or the end of the rhyme) with their weight on their right foot. We test out words to see if the sound is the same when the weight is on the right foot. "Do cat and fat rhyme?" Left foot /k/, right foot /at/-Left foot /f/, right foot /at/-"Is the sound on the right foot the same?" This kinesthetic piece really helps the students internalize rhyme.

Avoiding Chaos

Once, when my principal walked into my room and saw us doing push-ups, she smiled because she knew how hard it was for some of my students to focus. Later, she asked, "How do you get the students to do the push-ups and then come right back to their seats?"

The answer is twofold. First, I provided specific instructions. They had to choose a space close to their desk and make sure they were not touching anyone else. They knew they had to stay in their space while they did the activity, and then they knew to quickly and quietly return when they were done.

Second, I did not require that the students participate in the push-ups or other activities. I simply gave them the opportunity. They knew that if they chose not to follow the rules, they were choosing to sit out on that word. I always gave them the option to try again after sitting out for one word. In reality, they loved doing it so much that they rarely sat out more than once. You may have some students with autism or other sensory issues who do not want to participate. That's fine. Don't force them to do the movements.

Oh yes, and when you do these movements with your students, remember to start a physical activity on your smartwatch so that you'll get credit. These activities have the added benefit of allowing you to combine work with a workout!

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In one sentence, Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless other uses, help teachers teach, and students learn.

For example, Bloom's Taxonomy can be used to:

create assessments

frame discussions

plan lessons (see 249 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking)

evaluate the complexity of assignments

design curriculum maps

develop online courses project-based learning (often through project-based learning ideas)

self-assessment

See How To Teach With Bloom's Taxonomy for more reading.

A Brief History Of Bloom's Taxonomy Revisions

Bloom's Taxonomy was created by Benjamin Bloom in 1956, published as a kind of classification of learning outcomes and objectives that have, in the more than half-century since, been used for everything from framing digital tasks and evaluating apps to writing questions and assessments.

The original sequence of cognitive skills was Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The framework was revised in 2001 by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl, yielding the revised Bloom's Taxonomy. The most significant change to the Cognitive Domain was the removal of 'Synthesis' and the addition of 'Creation' as the highest level of Bloom's Taxonomy. And being at the highest level, the implication is that it's the most complex or demanding cognitive skill-or at least represents a kind of pinnacle for cognitive tasks.

See also 100 Bloom's Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking

How Bloom's Taxonomy Is Useful For Teachers

In a separate post, we're going to cover exactly how Bloom's can be used by teachers. There are many reasons for the popularity of Bloom's Taxonomy (that likely deserve an article of their own to explore). For now, it's clear that many educators love Bloom's because, among other virtues, it gives them a way to think about their teaching-and the subsequent learning of their students.

As mentioned above, the framework can be used to create assessments, evaluate the complexity of assignments, increase the rigor of a lesson, simplify an activity to help personalize learning, design a summative assessment, plan project-based learning, frame a group discussion, and more. Because it simply provides an order for cognitive behaviors, it can be applied to almost anything. (You can see one example here-one of our teaching materials that combined Bloom's Taxonomy with common digital tasks.)

The image above visually demonstrates the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy as a spectrum rather than a hierarchy to allow for room for the 'power verbs' that can act as synonyms (and thus activity ideas) for teachers planning lessons and units.

There are six levels in Bloom's Taxonomy (the initialism RUAAEC may be useful to recall the levels).

The 6 Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy

1. The first level is to Remember.

Example activities at the Remembering level: memorize a poem, recall state capitals, remember math formulas

2. The second level is to Understand.

Example activities at the Understanding level: organize the animal kingdom based on a given framework, illustrate the difference between a rectangle and a square, summarize the plot of a simple story

3. The third level is to Apply.

Example activities at the Application level: use a formula to solve a problem, select a design to meet a purpose, reconstruct the passage of a new law through a given government/system

4. The fourth level is to Analyze.

Example activities at the Analysis level: identify the 'parts of' democracy, explain how the steps of the scientific process work together, identify why a machine isn't working

5. The fifth level is to Evaluate.

Example activities at the Evaluation level: make a judgment regarding an ethical dilemma, interpret the significance of a given law of physics, illustrate the relative value of a technological innovation in a specific setting-a tool that helps recover topsoil farming, for example.

6. The sixth and highest level is to Create.

Example activities at the Creation level: design a new solution to an 'old' problem that honors/acknowledges the previous failures, delete the least useful arguments in a persuasive essay, write a poem based on a given theme and tone

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