Encourages critical thinking skills in children by presenting open-ended, thought provoking questions with promts to draw or write their reactions in a notebook or engage with family and friends.
A large part of our everyday communication involves argumentation and reasoning for example, when we want to persuade others, make good purchasing decisions, or analyze the messages we receive from advertisers and politicians. But how well do we prepare students for these tasks? Can they critically evaluate a speaker s point of view? Understand rhetorical devices? Apply logic? Build an effective argument, whether written or spoken?.
Presents reproducible booktalks and activities for kindergarten through third grade, designed to teach more than thirty thinking skills, such as analogy, classification, comparison, forecasting, hypothesizing, sequencing, and problem solving.
"Henry Finch ... strives for greatness, gets it all a bit wrong, then makes it right again in a very surprising way -- truly becoming great"--Provided by publisher.
"RJ says what he thinks ... no matter how it sounds or makes others feel. It's time RJ starts using a social filter when he speaks. With help from his parents, he learns he doesn't have to verbalize every thought that pops into his head. In fact, sometimes the less said the better"--Publisher.
