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Easy reading for implementing the teaching of thinking
Active Questioning
Using the theory that there is more thinking and learning in asking questions than in answering questions, this hands-on resource offers reproducible examples of 5 kinds of questions with a goal of teaching students how to ask differentiated questions about content. Differentiated questions can be used with any content, learning style or age. It carries over to good decision making, effective communication, and creative problem solving. Students are asked to use differentiated questions and each unique kind of question is discussed and modeled.
Author: Nancy Johnson-Farris; Grades K - 9
Using the theory that there is more thinking and learning in asking questions than in answering questions, this hands-on resource offers reproducible examples of 5 kinds of questions with a goal of teaching students how to ask differentiated questions about content. Differentiated questions can be used with any content, learning style or age. It carries over to good decision making, effective communication, and creative problem solving. Students are asked to use differentiated questions and each unique kind of question is discussed and modeled.
Author: Nancy Johnson-Farris; Grades K - 9
| $ 14.95 |
Questioning Makes the Difference
This time honored tool offers rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high level thinking and enhance students' self concept. The questioning strategies favor in depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Strategies include personification, hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques such as mind map organizing and visual construction of ideas. Diagrams, sample questions and bulleted lists make up much of the book's content, and math, social studies and reading examples are abundant throughout.
Author: Nancy Johnson-Farris; Grades K - 12
This time honored tool offers rationales and strategies for the use of questioning as a method of instruction. Activities help motivate students, stimulate high level thinking and enhance students' self concept. The questioning strategies favor in depth thinking and reflection over recollection of facts. Strategies include personification, hypothetical questioning, and visual techniques such as mind map organizing and visual construction of ideas. Diagrams, sample questions and bulleted lists make up much of the book's content, and math, social studies and reading examples are abundant throughout.
Author: Nancy Johnson-Farris; Grades K - 12
| $ 14.95 |
Primary Education Thinking Skills
Dudley the Detective and Sybil the Scientist are convergent thinkers; Isabel the Inventor and Yolanda the Yarnspinner are divergent thinkers; Jordan the Judge is an evaluative thinker and Max the Magician is a visual thinker. Join these characters in a full year's curriculum to practice and reinforce higher level thinking. Whole group lessons are used to familiarize students with thinking skills and problem solving and to assist the teacher in assigning students for effective small group lessons.
Authors: D. Merritt, J. Nichols, S. Thomson, M. Wolfe; Grades K - 3
Dudley the Detective and Sybil the Scientist are convergent thinkers; Isabel the Inventor and Yolanda the Yarnspinner are divergent thinkers; Jordan the Judge is an evaluative thinker and Max the Magician is a visual thinker. Join these characters in a full year's curriculum to practice and reinforce higher level thinking. Whole group lessons are used to familiarize students with thinking skills and problem solving and to assist the teacher in assigning students for effective small group lessons.
Authors: D. Merritt, J. Nichols, S. Thomson, M. Wolfe; Grades K - 3
| $ 24.95 |
Primary Education Thinking Skills 2
An extension of the thinking strategies from the original PETs book, students follow the same characters as they blend their thinking skills to work together to solve many, varied problems. Students will have fun as they practice using clues, studying parts of things, looking for patterns for a solution, brainstorming to find lots of answers, using consideration and imagination.
Stimulate your students with high interest, challenging, hands on activities. Detailed lesson plans are provided for whole class and small group lessons.
Authors: D. Merritt, J. Nichols, S. Thomson, M. Wolfe; Grades K - 3
An extension of the thinking strategies from the original PETs book, students follow the same characters as they blend their thinking skills to work together to solve many, varied problems. Students will have fun as they practice using clues, studying parts of things, looking for patterns for a solution, brainstorming to find lots of answers, using consideration and imagination.
Stimulate your students with high interest, challenging, hands on activities. Detailed lesson plans are provided for whole class and small group lessons.
Authors: D. Merritt, J. Nichols, S. Thomson, M. Wolfe; Grades K - 3
| $ 24.95 |
