Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

PICTURE CARDS | Fact or Opinion

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This book is a structured methodology for developing critical thinking in a pleasant and creative manner. Critical thinking is a mental and emotional function allowing us to evaluate all available information and decide what to do or think by reasoning on it.

This is a 153-page book with some brief theoretical background, 20 picture cards about the notions of opinion and fact, 60 picture cards for the choice of the appropriate answer (fact – opinion) and 57 activity worksheets, of varying degrees of difficulty, allowing the generalization and the written presentation of these ideas (written language).

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Description

Fact or Opinion

Age Group : 6 years and over

Critical thinking is a mental and emotional function allowing us to evaluate all available information and decide what to do or think by reasoning on it.
The book provides activities for developing all six critical thinking skills:

Knowledge: recalling information
Understanding: translating or interpreting information
Application: applying knowledge to a new situation
Analysis: breaking down information into smaller parts and finding the relationship between them
Synthesis: compiling component ideas into a new whole and building a network of relations for the new situations
Evaluation: the ability to evaluate, to assess the value and the adequacy of both the information and the methods used for a specific purpose

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Specifications

Book format

Paper (Spiral Binding) or PDF file
SKU

EN-EB1059
Age

School-aged children
Number of pages

153
Dimensions

8.27 x 11.69 inches
Author

Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc
Pagination

Alice Kassotaki
Translation & Proofreading

Maria Rigli
Year of publication

2018

Theoretical background

Critical thinking – Definition
Being a critical thinker
Critical Thinking Skills – Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy
Critical Thinking Skills – Taxonomy Pyramid
Useful verbs when classifying critical thinking skills
Distinction between a fact and an opinion
Identification of a fact and an opinion
Content analysis
Content structure
Consolidated Table /Picture cards 1/
Consolidated Table /Picture cards 2/

Practice activities
Level 1 – Picture cards 1

Understanding the notions of /fact – opinion/

Level 2 – Picture cards 2

Choice of notions /fact – opinion/

Level 3 – Worksheets/Activities

Finding and naming /a fact – an opinion/ – Visualization
Finding and naming / a fact – an opinion/ with specific phrases
Finding and naming / a fact – an opinion/ – text
Finding and naming / a fact – an opinion / – reasoning
Finding and naming /a fact – an opinion/ – identification
Finding and naming /a fact - an opinion/ – content

Age

School-aged children

Author

Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

PICTURE CARDS | Fact or Opinion

Description

Fact or Opinion

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