Bloom’s Taxonomy on Reading Exercises in English Textbook “Bahasa Inggris” for Grade Ten Senior High School

The purpose of this study was to find the types of reading exercises and the distribution of Bloom’s Taxonomy in cognitive domain in the third revision of English Textbook for grade ten Senior High School students published by Pusat Perbukuan dan Kurikulum . Based on Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy (2001) there are 3 domain in Bloom Taxonomy such as the cognitive domain, affective domain and psychomotor domain. This study focused on cognitive domain. There are six level of cognitive domain; remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create. Based on Heaton Theory, there are 5 types of reading exercises. Namely, matching test, true false, multiple choice, completion item, and open ended. This study used the qualitative method to solve the problems. The data of this study were taken from 172 questions from 30 reading exercises. For collecting the data this study used one technique, that is documentation. Analysis technique used which were data reduction, data displays and conclusion drawing/ verification. The finding of this study are there are 43% for remember, 32% for understand, 5% for apply, 15% for analyze, 3 % for evaluate, and 2 % for create. There are 3 of 5 types of question used in this textbook.