Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3–5

Download or read book Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3–5 written by Emily Hollett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 will teach students to think critically about values, issues, and ideas while creating defensible arguments. Evaluative thinking is a skill which helps students learn to weigh values and facts in making judgements. Working through the lessons and handouts in this book, students will examine difficult and ambiguous questions from a subjective and balanced perspective. This curriculum provides cohesive, focused, scaffolded lessons to teach each targeted area of competency, followed by authentic application activities for students to then apply their newly developed skill set. This book can be used as a stand-alone gifted curriculum or as part of an integrated curriculum. Each lesson ties in both reading and metacognitive skills, making it easy for teachers to incorporate into a variety of contexts.