Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3–5

✍ Scribed by Emily Hollett, Anna Cassalia

• Publisher: Routledge/Prufrock Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Integrated Lessons in Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Evaluative Thinking for Advanced Learners, Grades 3-5 will teach students to think critically about values, issues, and ideas while creating defensible arguments.

Evaluative thinking is a skill which helps students learn to weigh values and facts in making judgements. Working through the lessons and handouts in this book, students will examine difficult and ambiguous questions from a subjective and balanced perspective. This curriculum provides cohesive, focused, scaffolded lessons to teach each targeted area of competency, followed by authentic application activities for students to then apply their newly developed skill set.

This book can be used as a stand-alone gifted curriculum or as part of an integrated curriculum. Each lesson ties in both reading and metacognitive skills, making it easy for teachers to incorporate into a variety of contexts.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction to Evaluative Thinking
Materials
Introduction: Frame of the Discipline
Primary Source: Artwork Analysis
Thinking Skills Avatar
Bibliography
Chapter 1 Sub-Skill 1: Considering Perspectives
Considering Perspectives Lesson 1: Understanding Viewpoints
Considering Perspectives Lesson 2: How Personal Viewpoints Affect Others
Considering Perspectives Authentic Application Activity: Merging Viewpoints
Considering Perspectives Concluding Activities
Bibliography
Chapter 2 Sub-Skill 2: Developing Criteria
Developing Criteria Lesson 1: Personal Considerations
Developing Criteria Lesson 2: External Considerations
Developing Criteria Authentic Application Activity:
Formulating Your Own Criteria
Developing Criteria Concluding Activities
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Sub-Skill 3: Assigning Value
Assigning Value Lesson 1: Identifying Importance
Assigning Value Lesson 2: Orders of Importance
Assigning Value Authentic Application Activity:
Writing the Rule Book
Assigning Value Concluding Activities
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Sub-Skill 4: Discussing Gray Area
Discussing Gray Area Lesson 1: Opposing Values
Discussing Gray Area Lesson 2: Exceptions to Rules
Discussing Gray Area Authentic Application Activity:
Socratic Seminar
Discussing Gray Area Concluding Activities
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Sub-Skill 5: Making and Defending Judgments
Making and Defending Judgments Lesson 1: Evaluating
the Choices of Others
Making and Defending Judgments Lesson 2: Defending
Our Own Choices
Making and Defending Judgments Authentic
Application Activity: Making and Defending a Choice
Making and Defending Judgments Concluding Activities
Bibliography
Appendix A: Assessments
Appendix B: Extensions