activity and thinking

1. ACTIVITY AND TYPES OF THINKING

2. MATCHING
TYPES OF THINKING
Identifying, labelling, naming, describing,
measuring, estimating, describing cause
and effect/ problems and solutions.
KEY VISUAL
Flashcards, cards for snap, Bingo,
Dominoes, maps, labelled diagrams,
diagrams with captions, tables, materials

3. SORTING
TYPES OF THINKING
Classifying, defining,
generalizing,
comparing,
contrasting
KEY VISUALS
Tree diagrams,
tables, tick charts,
diagrams

4. SEQUENCING
TYPES OF THINKING
Sequencing, describing
process and cycles,
narrating events or
chronological order
KEY VISUALS
Timelines, flow charts,
cycle diagrams, picture
sequence

5. RANKING
• TYPES OF THINKING
• Evaluating, judging size, importance etc, applying
criteria, selecting, comparing
• KEY VISULAS
Rating tables, continua, bull’s eye charts

6. Activity
• Sequencing letters, parts of body, whole
words or sentences and sequencing them to
make words, phrases or sentences. The
pupils read and sequence items
Purpose
Learning to read: building up letter and word
recognition, morphemic and syntactic
awareness
Reading to learn: checking understanding at
sentence level
Reading to physically settle or calm pupils
Reading to encourage mental activity and
problem-solving
Materials: Flashcards or worksheets with
letters, prefixes, words
Moveable cards are good for a kinesthetic
learning style.

7. Matching or mapping
pictures and words or two
halves of a sentence so that
they make sense. The pupils
read and match the parts so
that they make sense. The
extracts can be on a tape
also to reinforce listening
skills
Learning to read: developing
syntactic awareness
Reading to learn:
understanding how markers
like but, or first then next
organize discourse
Reading to
encourage mental
activity and
problem-solving
Materials:
Flashcards with
cards and/or
pictures
Graphic organizer
such as a tickchart
or flow chart to say

8. Understanding text types. The
pupils learn words for different
kinds of text, eg, manual, TV
guide, menu, brochure and
match text type to their label
and purpose, eg this is a kind of
sign it gives us a warning.
Purpose:
Reading to learn: to develop
awareness of text types, their
layout, purpose, etc
Reading to encourage mental
activity and problem solving.
Materials: Different example of
text-type+ sets of cards, one
with the text type name on, the
other with the purpose which
pupils match