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Introduction
Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom will help teachers to apply thinking skills strategies to maths, literacy and science. More than 60 exciting games and activities with accompanying resources.
Benefits
Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom will help you to:
- raise standards and end of key stage test results
- increase pupil confidence and self-esteem
- equip children with life-long information processing skills
- enable reflection, encourage discussion and integrate metacognition
- create a positive learning environment
Summary of contents
This clear and practical book introduces 11 key thinking skills, explains their importance and gives you a range of games and activities to promote creative and critical thinking abilities in your pupils. Guidance and tips of creating a thinking skills classroom environment are also provided.
Chapter breakdown
Introduction
Levels of use
Chapter 1 – Teaching thinking skills
Using the lesson plans
The thinking skills defined
The thinking skills classroom
Adapting the activities and creating your own plans
Chapter 2 – Maths
Foundation Stage 2: Shape dominoes, Shape pictures, Spotty numbers!
Years 1-6: What number am I?
Year 1: Days and months, Find the right one, Ordering weights
Years 2 and 3: Find the difference game
Year 3: Apples and oranges, Make a game
Year 4: Compass points, Number ladders, Order it!
Year 5: Are you obtuse?, Maths stories, Times tables
Year 6: Calculator count-up, Beat the timer, Make me in 3D!, Sort that data!, What’s my angle?
Chapter 3 – Literacy
Foundation Stage 2: Alphabet circle, Key word games
Year 1: Circle stories – retelling, Speedy spinner words, Story mountain
Year 2: Compounds/Little word detectives, Living graph: three little pigs, Remember that sentence!
Year 3: Ace adjectives, Story settings, What’s the feeling?, Prefixes and suffixes
Year 4: Chopped-up limericks, Describe a character/scene
Year 5: Sort those words!, What’s the story?, Grid stories
Year 6: Genre sorting, Letter grids
Chapter 4 – Science
Year 1: Matching pairs, Ordering game, Sort it out!, Light sources, Simple forces
Year 2: Healthy foods, Plant and animal life cycles, Plant and animal variation, Pairing and sorting materials, Push pull, Make a circuit
Year 3: Helping plants grow well, Materials – a paper nail!, Material dominoes, Rocks card game
Year 4: Food chain game, Hot and cold, Solids and liquids
Year 5: Pulse rates and calories, A healthy lifestyle
Year 6: Minibeasts, Reversible and irreversible changes, Floating and sinking, Science revision game
Details
Print: Mixed media product, 305 x 255, 45 Pages, Published 11/2008
eBook: 1 x PDF
Testimonials
'Hi, just wanted to say people should check out this new book called "Thinking skills in the primary classroom" from Optimus Education - its on Amazon. I needed a book to get me started in using thinking skills with my Y5 class but was worried about making time for it. This book has loads of good ideas and all the lesson plan and the resources were there ready to use! Def check this out or get a coordinator at school to get one for your school. It has already given me some great ideas!'
Posted by: johnno2000 28/01/2009 on the TES Forum
community.tes.co.uk/forums/p/289287/4222272.aspx#4222272
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