Thinking skills. Ages 9-11 - Georgie Beasley

The books in this series help teachers to see how and where theycan focus on thinking skills within the curriculum that they alreadyteach. The books demonstrate how teachers can focus more fullyon thinking skills within existing favourite teaching activitiesas well as providing new ideas for supporting pupils' specfic thinkingskills.All activity ideas relate to subject areas as set out in the QCASchemes of Work and the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategiesand so are easy to fit into normal day-to-day teaching. There isa chapter for each thinking skill providing a range of activitiesacross the subject areas. As well as these cross-curricular ideaseach book provides a longer project for each year group. Theseprojectsare firmly based in the National Curriculam orders and enablechildren to focus on all their thinking skills over the challengeof a half-term project.The books include:* activity ideas for including the teaching of thinking skills withinthe Programmes of study for other subjects* new activity ideas plus how to use standard/familiar activity ideasto focus on thinking skills* quidance on questioning skills for teachers* a project for each year group designed to highlight all the thinkingskills* grids to show how the thinking skills link with the subjects ofthe National CurriculamTHINKING SKILLS: AGES 9-11 has two cross-curricular projects basedaround the themes of 'Italy' and 'Planning a school trip'