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PICTURE CARDS | Fact or Opinion

Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc
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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:

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

You may also be interested in the book "Development of Oral and Written Discourse through Argumentation".

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

Contents

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

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