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Barrett Taxonomy Levels

The document outlines the five levels of Barrett's Taxonomy of reading comprehension. The first level is literal comprehension, which involves recognition and recall of clear details. The second level is reorganization, where students analyze and classify ideas by outlining and summarizing. The third level is inferential comprehension, where students make inferences using prior knowledge and hypotheses. The fourth level is evaluation, where students make judgments by evaluating facts versus opinions. The fifth and final level is appreciation, where students express emotional sensitivity and thoughts in response to the text.

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Barrett Taxonomy Levels

The document outlines the five levels of Barrett's Taxonomy of reading comprehension. The first level is literal comprehension, which involves recognition and recall of clear details. The second level is reorganization, where students analyze and classify ideas by outlining and summarizing. The third level is inferential comprehension, where students make inferences using prior knowledge and hypotheses. The fourth level is evaluation, where students make judgments by evaluating facts versus opinions. The fifth and final level is appreciation, where students express emotional sensitivity and thoughts in response to the text.

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There are five levels altogether and each level explains on how we as readers should follow and

understand. The first level is literal comprehension. Two ideas are brought up here which is
recognition and also recall. This level identifies the clear part of reading comprehension. Recognition
is a bit direct while recall requires details information.

As for reorganization which is the second level of Barret Taxonomy, it deals with the
organization of ideas. As the root word is organize, the sequence of order is very essential. As a
student, they have to analyze and classify the information they get. Students must be familiar with
classifying, outlining, summarizing and synthesizing.

Inferential comprehension will be in the third level of Barrets Taxonomy. Students must make
inference based on their prior knowledge. This is because, the students have to make hypothesis.
This can be used to support main idea and supporting details.

The fourth one is evaluation. In making evaluation, we have to come up with a decision. There
are items to follow so that we are on the right track. We can check on reality or fantasy, facts or
opinion and judge based on that. Usually, this is where students have to make decision.

The last one is appreciation. Students are expected to be emotionally sensitive with the text
given. We can express our thought and feelings on what the passage discussed in class.

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