Learning Experience plan

5. Six Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Questions:
Write six HOT questions about the story to ask to children while you read the
story and at the end of the story. Use the sample questions below to create a
question to correspond with each of the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy:
1) Understanding 2) Remembering 3) Applying 4) Analyzing 5) Evaluating and 6)
Creating
Level 1. Remembering
• Rainbow Fish has beautiful scales of many colors. What are
some of the colors of his dazzling scales? Besides Rainbow
Fish, who are some of the other characters in the story?
Where does the story take place?
Level 2. Understanding:
• What was special about Rainbow Fish that made him different from the
other fish in the ocean?
• Why didn’t Rainbow Fish want to give Blue Fish one of his beautiful
glimmering scales?
• How do you think Rainbow Fish was feeling at the end of the story?
Level 3. Applying
• Besides giving away all his beautiful scales, how could Rainbow Fish
have become friends with the other fish? Why was Rainbow Fish lonely?
What would happen if Rainbow Fish never learned to share?
Level 4. Analyzing
• Why is it important to be kind to others?
If you were Rainbow Fish, and the other fish admired your beautiful
scales, what would you do? How would you feel if no one wanted to play
with you?
Level 5. Evaluating
• Do you think it was wrong for Rainbow Fish to not want to share his
beautiful scales in the beginning of the story? Do you think Rainbow Fish
should have kept more of his scales at the end of the story?
• Do you think it was fair that Rainbow Fish was born with so many
beautiful scales?
Level 6. Creating
• How would the story be different if the octopus had not been in his cave?
What if the story was about a Rainbow Pony or a Rainbow Frog- what
would that be like?
If you were going to make-up a poem about Rainbow Fish, what words
would be important to include?
6. Instructional Procedures: