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Thinking Skills

Grade Level Thinking Skills

	"I Do"	"We Do"	"You Do"	Mastery
Gr	Introduce	Practice	Application	Full Integration
	Teach Thinking Skills strategy with simple content: stories, pictures, objects, videos, physical activities	Focus on Thinking Skills strategy; use content; teacher model	Pre-assess Thinking Skills strategy; use with content; post-assess Thinking Skills strategy	Independent competency with Thinking Skills in all content areas and life skills
K	Classifying Observing Finding Patterns
1	Sequencing Predicting Comparing/Contrasting	Classifying Observing Finding Patterns
2	Goal Setting Problem Solving Finding Evidence	Sequencing Predicting Comparing/Contrasting	Classifying Observing Finding Patterns
3	Fact and Opinion Inferring Summarize	Goal Setting Comparing/Contrasting Problem Solving Finding Evidence	Predicting Sequencing	Classifying Observing Finding Patterns
4	Main Idea Point of View	Problem Solving Fact and Opinion Inferring Summarize	Goal Setting Finding Evidence Comparing/Contrasting	Predicting Sequencing
5	Cause and Effect Detecting Bias	Point of View Inferring Main Idea	Fact and Opinion Problem Solving Summarize	Goal Setting Finding Evidence Comparing/Contrasting
6	Decision Making Analysis	Cause and Effect Comparing/Contrasting L2 Detecting Bias Main Idea	Inferring Finding Evidence L2 Point of View Goal Setting L2	Summarize Problem Solving Fact and Opinion
7	Evaluation	Fact and Opinion L2 Cause and Effect Decision Making Analysis	Main Idea Comparing/Contrasting L2 Detecting Bias	Inferring Finding Evidence L2 Point of View Goal Setting L2
8	Synthesis	Evaluation Analysis Main Idea L2	Cause and Effect Summarize L2 Decision Making Fact and Opinion L2	Comparing/Contrasting L2 Detecting Bias Main Idea
9		Synthesis Problem Solving L2 Point of View L2	Evaluation Comparing/Contrasting L3 Analysis Goal Setting L3 Main Idea	Decision Making Summarize L2 Cause and Effect Fact and Opinion L2
10		Synthesis Detecting Bias L2	Point of View Problem Solving L2	Analysis Main Idea L2 Comparing/Contrasting L3 Evaluation Goal Setting L3
11		Analysis L2 Cause & Effect L2	Detecting Bias L2 Synthesis Decision Making L2 Evaluation L2	Problem Solving L2 Point of View L2
12			Cause & Effect L2 Analysis L2	Detecting Bias L2 Synthesis Decision Making L2 Evaluation L2
L2 = Level 2 L3 = Level 3 Level 2 and 3 repeated cycles of Thinking Skills strategies with higher level content.

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