SOLO Close reading

Students are encouraged to ask SOLO coded questions in close reading of the text. Questions are categorised according to their SOLO level, as in the following examples:

• Questions that bring in ideas (questions that target multistructural outcomes - like definition and description): What is …? What is it like? What did you notice? What did you annotate? What was powerful?

• Questions that relate ideas (questions that target relational outcomes - like classifying, explaining causes and effects, comparing and contrasting and analysing): How is …? Why does …? What does this mean? Why would …? How is this similar to …? How is this different from …? How did this change the outcome? What caused this to happen? How did this contribute to …?

• Questions that extend ideas(questions that target extended abstract outcomes - like generalising, evaluating, predicting, creating new ideas): What did this make you wonder? How did this make you feel? What did this remind you of? Have you come across these ideas anywhere else in your reading or viewing or in your life?

Refer McNeill and Hook 2012 SOLO Taxonomy and Making Meaning Bk3 Extended texts and thematic studies p8

Examples

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