What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? Bloom’s Taxonomy is a framework for classifying educational objectives, originally developed by Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues in 1956. It includes six levels of thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, and creation (though I personally prefer the term synthesis). Many of the skills students learn are grounded in this rigor matrixContinue reading “Explicit ELA: A Model for Revising and Editing Mastery”