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Teaching thinking skills with picture books, grades K-3 / Nancy Polette ; illustrated by Paul Dillon.

Teaching thinking skills with picture books, grades K-3 / Nancy Polette ; illustrated by Paul Dillon.
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ISBN 9781591585923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1591585929 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Name Polette, Nancy
Title Teaching thinking skills with picture books, grades K-3 / Nancy Polette ; illustrated by Paul Dillon.
Published Westport, Conn. : Teacher Ideas Press, 2007.
Description ix, 139 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes Includes index.
Contents Analogy -- Analysis -- Associative thinking -- Attribute listing -- Brainstorm -- 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 -- Vocabulary.
Summary "This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills in the primary grades will be useful to teachers, librarians, and staff development personnel, and of particular interest to teachers of the gifted. Each thinking skill is explained in a full-page reproducible format. A following page offers booktalks for favorite picture books that can be used to teach the skill to young children. There are also two pages of reproducible activities that will allow the children to practice the newly learned skill. Over 35 skills are taught, ranging from analogy to hypothesizing to visual perception."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Picture books for children
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