Reading comprehension is an essential skill for all people and students to be able to live a comfortable and literate life. As students move through school the skills educators aim to teach students change. In the lower grades students learn how to read words and understand what they are reading literally. When students move into the upper school the demands on reading broaden and students are required to inference, reorganise, evaluate and deeply consider the texts they read.

 

Teachers around the world teach these skills through encouraging students to regularly read and strategic questioning that often takes the form of a basic comprehension exercise. They use known frameworks such as Blooms Taxonomy to ensure that their questions provoke higher order thinking in the students and facilitate them developing the skills they will need to be literate in the modern world

Writing these questions can be time consuming for teachers and that is where Bloom Reading is useful. Bloom Reading is a service that allows teachers to share comprehension questions they have written for books, instantly generate worksheets and access questions created by other teachers around the world. It is entirely free to use and as more teachers use it the better it becomes. The ultimate goal of Bloom Reading is to enable teachers to write high quality questions and essentially significantly increasing teacher productivity by allow them to reuse their own and each others questions.