A Master List of Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs for Improving Linguistic Literacy for Teachers in Teacher Preparation Programs

To ensure linguistic literacy of teachers this study produced a master list of English language action verbs of Bloom’s taxonomy at the knowledge realm. To do this, we compared our previously published list of action verbs (Eljishi et al., 2024) to a well-established list in the literature (Stanny, 2016). The master list showed agreement between the two lists of below 50% which is in accordance with that found in the literature. The master list produced, contained 72 action verbs in all which is both condensed (below 100) and offers several options of action verbs for teachers to use per Bloom cognitive level. The aim of this master list is to be available for use by faculty and student-teachers in teacher preparation programs as well as to contribute to the literature on Bloom’s taxonomy. The list would allow faculty to accurately assess student-teachers on the use of the appropriate action verbs at the correct Bloom’s cognitive level. It would also be a convenient list for student teachers to use in preparing their lesson plans.