Resources Strategies to Build Thinking Skills RECALLING Who, what, when, where, how________________________________? COMPARING How is______________________________similar to/different from? IDENTIFYING ATTRIBUTES AND COMPONENTS What are the characteristics /parts of______________________? CLASSIFYING How might we organize_______________________ into categories? ORDERING Arrange ________________into sequence according to ____________? IDENTIFYING RELATIONSHIPS AND PATTERNS Develop an outline /diagram / web of ________________? REPRESENTING In what other ways might we show/illustrate _______________? IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS What is the key concept/issue in _______________? IDENTIFYING ERRORS What is wrong with _______________________________? INFERRING What might we infer/what conclusions might be drawn from _____? PREDICTING What might happen if ______________________________________? ELABORATING What ideas/details can you add to _________________________? SUMMARIZE Can you summarize _______________________________________? ESTABLISHING CRITERIA What criteria would you use to judge/evaluate ____? VERIFYING What evidence supports / How might we prove/confirm _________?
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