IB PYP Thinking Skills Strategies & Activities for Big Kids

These IB PYP activities for developing IB PYP thinkers and inquires begins by creating an understanding with what is involved throughout the thinking process. The IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills lists multiple sub-skills from analysing all the way through to synthesizing. These printable and digital posters help to bring greater awareness and understanding to the children of those sub-skills as they build upon their thinking skills and become more independent thinkers and inquirers. Highly engaging images to provoke thinking & invite wonder with the academic language expected for 3rd-5th grade thinking strategies.

Use with:

• Provocations for explicit skills-based lessons
• Implicit practice of THINKING skills through collaborative group work
• Guided reading skills & strategies

Put these fun, printable provocation posters in your inquiry classroom and watch the students gravitate towards them as they develop their comprehensions skills and strategies.

Editable graphic organisers are included so you can add your own provocation images/quotes.

Included are 13 provocation/reference posters with essential questions to support higher level thinking: (UK & American spelling)

•Metacognitive Thinking

•Reflection

•Questioning

•Analysing

•Synthesising

•Summarising

•Inferring

•Classifying and Categorising

•Cause and Effect

•Compare and Contrast

•Making Connections

•Drawing Conclusions

•Student-friendly reflection/assessment sheet

To learn more about ways to build those thinking skills and how they are the pillars for building the rest of the ATL skills, link to my Facebook video explaining and offering even more ideas. If you’d like to learn about how to incorporate the ATL Skills through drama, click here.

You may also like my Approaches to Learning Skills task cards, with digital versions too. Take a peek here.

Or, if you are looking to integrate the key concepts and Learner Profile into your literacy more, you will love these graphic organisers that fit with any text. You can peek at those right here.

You can find a version of this resource for younger grades here too.

Enjoy!

Susan Powers

PYPteachingtools.com