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Laminated Wall Posters for Each Kind of Thinking
I think classrooms need visual reminders about the four thinking patterns. I would like each pattern to be a different color and have a different graphic symbol.
This has worked very effectively for reading comprehension strategies from the books Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension, Understanding and Engagement and Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension to Primary grades.
The six strategies are Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Determining Importance and Synthesizing. Each Strategy poster has a symbol like for Making Connections is puzzle pieces connected. The teachers and students developed a common vocabulary by having these posters on the walls in the classrooms. I think something should be made for ThinkBlocks like this. Do not make posters too large as wall space is at a premium in most classrooms. Also, put two small holes in the top so the posters can be tacked to bulletin boards without ruining the posters.
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ann.erickson 10 months ago
Has there been any progress on this as I still think this has great commercial as well as educaational possibilities, with or without ThinkBlocks?
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