2 Applying a Taxonomy to the Thinking in Your Classroom
Thinking at the Remember Level
Thinking at the Understand Level
Thinking at the Evaluate Level
3 Developing Critical-Thinking Skills and Fostering Engagement
Creating Opportunities for Engagement
4 Implementing Strategies for Understand-Level Thinking
Strategy 1: Vocabulary-Building Movement
Strategy 2: Inductive Learning
Strategy 4: Ten Most Important Words
Strategy 5: Build Background Knowledge
Strategy 6: Content Links
Discussion Questions
Take Action
5 Implementing Strategies for Analyze-Level Thinking
Strategy 7: Concept Attainment
Strategy 8: Metaphor
Strategy 9: Media Metaphor
Strategy 10: Quote It! Code It!
Strategy 11: Visual Thinking
Strategy 12: Concept Maps
Strategy 13: Mind Maps
Strategy 14: Hear, Think, and Wonder
Strategy 15: Anticipation Guide
Strategy 16: Cubing
Strategy 17: Consensogram
Strategy 18: Fishbone Cause-and-Effect Analysis
Strategy 19: Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
Strategy 20: Overheard Quotes
Strategy 21: Discrepant Event
Strategy 22: Extent Barometer
Strategy 23: SWOT Analysis
Strategy 24: Gallery Walk
Discussion Questions
Take Action
6 Implementing Strategies for Evaluate-Level Thinking
Strategy 25: Four Corners
Strategy 26: Rank Order
Strategy 27: Questioning Protocols
Strategy 28: Inferencing
Strategy 29: Jigsaw With Case Studies
Strategy 30: Think-Pair-Share Continuum
Strategy 31: Decision Making
Strategy 32: Peer Critiquing
Strategy 33: Evaluate Around the Circle Jigsaw
Strategy 34: Investigation
Strategy 35: Evaluate an Author’s Reasoning
Strategy 36: Media Analysis
Strategy 37: ReQuest
Strategy 38: Find the Fiction
Strategy 39: Quads
Strategy 40: Claims, Evidence, Reasons
Strategy 41: Color-Coded Critical Feedback
Strategy 42: Rank, Talk, Write
