2KS2 KS2/3 Developing thinking across the curriculum
Plan: Plan -Unit of work/series of lessons/single lesson – LESSON 2
Thinking Skills
Plan
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Asking questions (to understand
the problem)
Activating prior knowledge, skills
and understanding
Gathering information
Determining the process/method
and strategy
Determining success criteria
Develop
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Generating and developing ideas
Valuing errors and unexpected
outcomes
Entrepreneurial thinking
Thinking about cause and effect
and making inferences
Thinking logically and seeking
patterns
Considering evidence,
information and ideas
Forming opinions and making
decisions
Monitoring progress
Reflect
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Reviewing outcomes and
success criteria
Reviewing the process/method
Evaluating own learning and
thinking
Linking and lateral thinking
Learning Objectives
Teaching and learning activities
Range/Skills English 2008
Pupils will be given the
Lesson 2 - Compare and Contrast
opportunity to experience
and respond to a variety of Think-pair-share. Pupils re-cap prior knowledge and use
stimuli and ideas.
this information to attempt to define a legend.
Key questions
What do you already know about legends?
Pupils will be given the
Can you use information that you learnt in the previous
opportunity to
lesson on legends to help you?
 Experience and
What did you do in a previous lesson to define a
respond to texts
narrative? Could this help you today?
with a Welsh
dimension
Working in groups use a Thinking Diagram to compare
 explore, develop
and contrast 2 legends that have been read to them.
and explain ideas,
(see teacher notes)
 to express
themselves clearly
In groups look at how these two legends are similar and
and confidently,
then report back findings to the class. Look at how they
 to listen to others,
questioning them to are different, with regard to setting/place, language,
characters, time etc. Share and discuss with the rest of
clarify what they
the class.
mean and
extending and
Note any patterns of significant similarities and
following up the
differences. Teacher to prompt pupils to a conclusion.
ideas
 to qualify and justify Key Questions
What do you need to do?
what they think
What can you use to help you?
after listening to
What evidence in the text can you use to support your
other opinions and
ideas?
deal politely with
Do other people in your group support your ideas?
opposing points of
Can you link what you already think or know to what you
view
are doing?
Success Criteria
Pupils will be more
At the end of the lesson display the pupils’ conclusions
confident in recognising
in the classroom.
Possible
learning tools
Think-pair-share
Thinking diagram
Group work/group
responses
the features of a legend.
Talk partners
Pupils will be able to
recognise the strategies
used to help them meet
the learning objectives.
Evaluation of Learning and Teaching
Reflection
Ask pupils to ‘think about their thinking’, to reflect on
strategies used.
Key Questions
What was successful?
What helped?
What steps did you take to reach your conclusion?
What did you find difficult? How could you improve next
time?
Could processes used in this lesson (that helped your
thinking) be used in other lessons?