Word Spiral Questions Examples

What is the Detective Analogy?
The Detective Analogy is the method teachers use to ask questions that lead to discovery.
Teachers should use powerful images tied directly to the content. These images can be primary source docs, paintings, lyrics, or as you’ll see in this example…word clouds.
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide, start by asking simple questions and build to complex.
Find out more about the Detective Analogy and other tips from www.teachtci.com

Look at this word cloud closely…

And this one as well…

Spiral Questioning via the Detective Analogy
What is similar between these two word clouds?

What is different between them?

What does the size of the words say about their importance?

What might we assume about the word “President” being in one word cloud and not the other?

What might we assume about the word “President” being in one word cloud and not the other?
Both of these clouds were generated from government documents…what are they?

Try it out!
Using www.wordle.net

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Word Spiral Questions Examples

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