Lesson
| level | Skill | Age | Time | |||
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| Pre + | Vocab: Lexical Sets | Adults / YL | 40 |  |
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The lesson includes a graphical organiser that can be adapted for any lexical set.
Click on the links above to get straight to the lesson, what follows is my thought process in putting the lesson together
Why I designed this class
Higher order thinking skills
I’ve been looking into thinking skills with Young Learners a bit this term. Herbert Pucha (great name) gives a pretty good justification for teaching higher order thinking skills to young learners by saying
It seems that what sorts out successful people from the less successful ones is a high level of engagement, an interest in ‘getting it right’, patience and persistence.
I’ve been teaching mostly 16-18 year olds this term and developing a high level of engagement has not always easy, especially as the textbook we are supposed to use is incredibly dull.
So in order to get students thinking a bit more I decided to challenge them with some more cognitively demanding activities. I’ve gotten a bit bored with Bloom’s Taxonomy so have been working with a different taxonomy of thinking skills, one developed by Steffen Saifer. I’d be interested in feedback on an activity type that I put together that gets students to work their Middle Order Thinking Skills (categorisation) and Higher Order Thinking Skills (inference).
Further reading
| Author | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steffen Saifer | Minimal Pairs: Minimal Importance? | |