Description
In this vibrant collection none of the 27 stories have a neat conclusion, providing you with a golden opportunity to develop important skills in thinking with your children. This approach means your pupils will need to be active in engaging with such dilemmas as:
- What is the world’s best question?
- How can you defeat the most dangerous beast in the world?
- What would you ask the wish camel for?
Through these questions your children will be able to develop their skills of information processing, reasoning, enquiry, creativity, evaluation and metacognition – thinking about thinking. Each story is accompanied by teacher’s notes that outline the skills being developed, a series of searching questions to develop those skills further and ways to apply thinking skills in all subject areas. Not only will you and your children enjoy these wonderful stories, you will also be challenged to think and learn in new and exciting ways. (From https://www.costcuttersuk.com/)
From an Amazon Reviewer: Mrs N Clarke
Have only just purchased this but used it for year 2 class assembly and it certainly got minds thinking and tongues talking. It’s a good quality book with supporting notes on how to use each story and different lines of enquiry that could be used to explore alternative outcomes. Already it’s made me look at my own teaching and how I could deliver in various ways to achieve more meaningful outcomes. Very pleased.
From an Amazon Reviewer: Baku
This book is full of short stories with no ending. So the children are asked to create their own endings and analyse the stories. In my opinion, the stories are very engaging and very well written. There are lot of different questions a parent can ask a child about a particular story, its content, behavior of certain characters, moral of the story etc.
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