Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom

The activities in this book are designed to be fun and engaging whilst helping children to experience and develop vital thinking skills. Each activity has been planned to help meet the stated learning objective whilst enabling experience of a particular thinking skill. The skills covered include: comparison, evaluation, sequencing, classification, spatial perception, problem-solving, metacognition and more. This resource utilises the thinking skills approach within lesson plans organised according to the five pillars of accelerated learning. It encourages teachers to work with children to get them thinking and talking about their own cognitive processes. Whether you are already using these thinking skills as part of everyday teaching toolkits or are at the first stages of implementing such teaching, the activities in this resource will provide support in classroom activities and lessons.The lesson plans provided with Thinking Skills in the Primary Classroom contain: Detailed lesson learning objectives, resources needed and the type of thinking skills used Planning sheets describing the main activities and how to facilitate them Outlines of work and questions which can be undertaken in the plenary section of the lesson Ideas on how to engage children Opportunities to reflect and discuss learning