Levels+of+Thinking

= Levels of Thinking = = =
 * 1) 1 Formulates questions about issues, about author's viewpoint, about connections to text, and seeks to answer those questions through active inquiry.
 * 2) 2 Judges and assesses characters/situations/issues/claims against own personal standards, often sharing advice, criticism, empathy, or disparity.
 * 3) 3 Reacts to the text as a literary work and, if reading fiction, addresses literary elements (conflicts, setting, theme, characters, structure...) and the language/rhetorical techniques (diction, figurative language, description, appeals, claims...) used in the text.
 * 4) 4 Compares the text to other texts of the same genre, by the same author, or dealing with similar themes.
 * 5) 5 Compares and contrasts situations and issues in the text to current events or societal issues.
 * 6) 6 Shares relevant research/readings to address questions/connections to historical context, the author, allusions.
 * 7) 7 Engages with the characters by talking to them, giving advice, or telling how he/she might behave in the same circumstance; for nonfiction, engages the author by agreeing or disagreeing.
 * 8) 8 Making sound predictions based on information from the text and validates or refutes those predictions in later responses.