Teaching Thinking Skills With Picture Books

 

                                  

            Teaching Thinking skills with picture books is written by Nancy Polette, a well published author and speaker. I found this book interesting because when we want to teach the all important thinking skills to our children, we are often clueless and have no idea what all aspects need to be covered. This books lists over 30 skills that are essential for developing thinking and problem solving skills and the icing on the cake is the use of pictures for our visual learners.

               Each skill is listed as a separate chapter with a brief introduction. Quality picture books are introduced as Book talks and this will help you find something similar to further practice the skill. This is followed by one or more thinking skills activities. 

                   The skills included in this book are :

Analogy

Analysis

Associative thinking

Attribute listing

Brainstrom

Classification

Comparing

Comprehension

Decision making

Deductive thinking

Elaboration

Evaluation

Flexibility

Fluency

Forecasting

Generalizing

Hypothesizing

Imagination

Inferring

Interpret

Judging

Knowledge

Language development

Originality

Patterning

Phonemic awareness

Planning

Predicting

Problem solving

Questioning - higher order

Research for beginners

Reversible thinking

Sequencing and 

Vocabulary

         A very comprehensive list isn't it? I don't know about you, but it definitely includes a few skills I never thought of. Time to sharpen the thinking skills! You can purchase the book on Amazon India