Warm-Up with Images and Concepts with Mini-Cards (Lower Primary/Pre-School)

We all know by now (pretend that you do, even if you don’t!!!) that teaching critical thinking is a never-ending job. Critical thinking strategies are domain sensitive, which simply means that a strategy that works in art may not work in history, and a strategy that works in for a verbal deliberation may not work in a situation that requires physical movement, etc.

We look at all this as an opportunity to expand our practice.  We can take this as an excuse to widen even further the variety of strategies we use in our classroom activities so that when our students go out into the world, they’ll be more prepared because of this little extra effort we put into our lessons.

In this scaffold, your young learners students have the opportunity to develop their verbal and visual skills as they create connections through logic and deciphering. You model identifying academic language and then you dare to delve into concepts. Watch your young learners SHINE!!!