Help children keep a notebook
A booklet to encourage children to care for their thoughts through writing.
Our reasoning activities are easy-to-use ideas for developing essential reasoning skills. They can be used as starters, dialogue breakout activities and follow-ups. The regular use of reasoning activities contributes to learners’ progress in reasoning, dialogue and writing over time.
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A booklet to encourage children to care for their thoughts through writing.
A 'mystery' is an activity to develop exploratory thinking, often about causes or consequences.
Lesson B develops 'If ... then' thinking and highlights the concepts of cause and effect.
Lesson C continues to explore the concepts of cause and effect and introduces the problems of 'rash reversing'.
This lesson introduces the practice of defining something and the essential word 'all'.
An activity to encourage the giving of reasons to support claims.