Develop Your Students' Critical Thinking Skills

Help your students become independent, critical thinkers!

EMC’s Mirrors & Windows is the only literature program that models a systematic approach for applying Bloom’s taxonomy. Students develop critical thinking skills through a questioning strategy that pairs lower-level questions with higher-level questions.

For example, in grades 9–12, students connect with the text through recall questions labeled Refer to Text. They then build on each connection by responding to a related inferential question labeled Reason with Text. These pairs of questions are presented hierarchically to walk students through the levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, beginning with basic comprehension and building to high-order synthesis.

Plus…EMC’s Mirrors & Windows uses new, revised terminology, updating Bloom’s taxonomy for classroom application!