Teaching Thinking Skills with Fairy Tales and Fantasy - Softcover

Polette, Nancy J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591583209 ISBN 13: 9781591583202

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2005

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Review

"Every elementary and secondary teacher-librarian should consider this book. Over the years, teacher-librarians have become experts in assisting learners to find and locate information, and even more recently they have taught the research process in its entirety, including the critical skill of evaluating what qualitative information is. Information power requires we assist learners in the use of information, which involves much more than what learners or even teacher-librarians would expect to come out of any library skills lesson. Polette's volume pushes the teacher-librarian's repertoire for what should be taught in the library to the teaching of thinking skills as part of the use of information....A must purchase." - Teacher Librarian

Synopsis

Uses fairy tales and fantasy stories to teach thinking skills. This step-by-step introduction to teaching thinking skills will be useful to teachers, librarians and staff development personnel. Each thinking skill is presented on a single reproducible page (easily adapted to a transparency or power point slide), followed by several self-contained activities teaching that skill using fairy tales and fantasy books as the basis to teach the integrated skill. Skills taught range from deductive reasoning to inferential and perceptual thinking. There are over 30 skills in all. Gifted education teachers will love this book. Though there are other books that teach thinking skills, there are none in this format with such a breadth of coverage. Introduces over 30 key skills. Skills are conveniently presented on single reproducible pages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1591583209
• ISBN 13: 9781591583202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168