Learning & Leading With Habits of Mind

activate the senses to gather data for processing at the next-higher level.

Several cognitive processes are included at this level of thinking: recalling,

completing, identifying, observing, counting, listing, reciting, defining,

matching, scanning, describing, naming, and selecting. Here are examples

of questions and statements designed to elicit these cognitive objectives:

Using Questions to Challenge Students’ Intellect 139

Evaluate

Generalize

Imagine

Judge

Predict

Speculate

If/Then

Apply a principle

Hypothesize

Forecast

Idealize

Compare

Contrast

Classify

Sort

Distinguish

Explain (why)

Infer

Sequence

Analyze

Synthesize

Make analogies

Reason

Complete

Count

De!ne

Describe

Identify

List

Match

Name

Observe

Recite

Select

Scan

Input

Process

Output

FIGURE 8.1

The Three-Story Intellect Model

Adapted by permission of the publisher from the “Three-Story Intellect Model” from Brain Compatible Classroomsby
Robin Fogarty, © SkyLight Training and Publishing, Inc.