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These are my slides from my session, Developing Critical Thinking in Our Youngest Learners, that I gave at the PK1 Conference in Santa Clara, CA in January 2015. In this presentation, I shared 9 instructional strategies to help Kindergarten and First Grade teachers teach critical thinking to their little ones. Many of the posters included in the slides are either free or for sale in my TpT store at www.hellojenjones.com <br><br>Keywords: Language Frames, Critical Thinking Rubric, because, Picture of the Day, Daily Analogies, Morning Meeting, Rules for Discussion, Speaking & Listening, Be Opinionated, Vocabulary Notebooks, Hello Literacy, Jen Jones
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Critical Thinking With our Youngest Learners
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“close, attentive reading”…”critical reading”… “reasoning and use of evidence”… “comprehend, evaluate, synthesize”… “understand precisely…question…assess the veracity” …. “cite specific evidence” … “evaluate others’ point of view”… “reading independently and closely”…
Where in the day could critical thinking occur?
Where Are You With This? Are Your Kids There?
Clearly Understanding Lower vs. Higher Level Thinking the answer is already known
instead of asking kids… Is 10 bigger or smaller than 7?
Or, instead of asking kids… Which is bigger, 10 or 7?
Ask students this… Why is 10 bigger than 7?
Are we communicating this Clearly Understanding Lower vs. Higher Level Thinking language WITH students? the answer is already known $
….followed by our evidence based thinking, tells others the rationale for our thinking.
Critical Thinking Rubric
First We must be Critical Thinkers… Form an opinion and justify it! Agree or disagree. Image: http://www.1vigor.com/brain-power/Clear-Thinking/index.html
Justifying Our Opinions Build Community
Daily Analogies Analogy Poster “Mrs. Jones, this is hard!” “Mrs. Jones, this is hard!” “I don’t know.” “I don’t know.”
Who Remembers DOL? www.greatsource.com
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Making Inferences with… Picture of the Day
Pictures *are* Informational text RIT.7 “Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.”
observing describing AnaLyzing Inferring
Describing & Inferring Pictures is most like… Reading ReaL Life.
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