Developing thinking skills and assessment through literacy

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DEVELOPING THINKING SKILLS AND ASSESSMENT

THROUGH LITERACY

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Project Day 1• Evaluate and celebrate your existing ideas for Thinking

Skills & Literacy• Experience straightforward ways to get young children

interested, engaged and thinking• Lesson starters, main activities and plenaries

• Use Thinking Stories to develop mark making and writing• Develop your own subject-specific thinking story• Plan one or two activities to try out in class (include the

development of success criteria for these tasks – to monitor impact)

• Learn how to use the project WikiSpace


Project Day 2

• Try out ideas, with support and guidance• Upload progress to Wikispace – notes/video/photos etc.


Project Day 3• Prepare mini-presentations using Wikispace (don’t want to

give you any additional prep. work outside the 3 days)• Evaluate activities against success criteria• Experience additional classroom activities

• Smart Thinking Tools• Thinking Classroom Toolbox• Scenario-based learning

• Plan next activities to try in class and review success criteria


Learning Lineups

Line up in order of distance to get here today


Learning Lineups


Learning Lineups


How should we organise ourselves?

Form groups of 6 that include a good mix of shapes.

Ensure that you personally are in a group with your own school colleague(s)


Indicate group strengths


Allocate group roles


Mark out a flip chart page as shown and make sure everyone can write on it at the same time.(one edge space for each person in the group)


INDIVIDUALLY,in your own space, write answers to these 2 prompts:1. Effective ways (activities etc.) in which I/we already use Thinking Skills and Assessment2. What help/support/ resources/ideas etc. I/we needDo not share yet.10 minutes


IN TURN,sweep* round the group, sharing with each other.

If there’s time left over, begin to discuss what you’ve shared. 18 minutes

*Sweep = ring-fenced time for speaker: no interruptions, questions, comments or challenges. However, make notes if you want to here:


TOGETHER,in the centre, summarise you group’s requests

10 minutes


Engaging Starters:Visual, 122 and

5x5



Individually: write down how many window panes there are

(1 minute)


Pair-Share: Tell a partner your number, hear theirs, then decide who is correct

(1 minute)


Group-Pair-Share: In your group, share pairs’ numbers and then decide the correct number

(1 minute)


6 for 1 Activity?Did we:

Link to subject?

Think, solve a problem, make decisions, evaluate?

Work alone and together?

Write, talk?

Include all learners, challenge thinking?

And were we Engaged? Enthused? Motivated? Inspired to finish that painting job?




Which is most dangerous and why?


Which is the odd one out and why?



What’s happening here?







• Which one is the odd one out and why?

• Include all 3 in a 30 second story

• Use all 3 to rescue a cat stuck up a tree

• Rank in order of usefulness

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Your lesson focus = X• Include all 3 in a 30 second story about X

• Which one has nothing to do with X?

• Rank in order of how connected to X they are

• Link each to X





Thinking Stories




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Next Steps Plenary

As individual schools/settings, write down up to 3 ideas from today that you will try. Say what, why and when for each.Then bring your ideas and yourself to the front of the hall and make 2 lines, facing each other.



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