Offers ideas for improving abstract thinking skills using fairy tales and fantasy designed for the first through sixth-grade classroom, and includes exercises and activity suggestions in a reproducible format.
Content Note
What is thinking? -- Who needs thinking skills -- Abstract thinking -- Making the abstract concrete -- Affectve domain -- Ugly duckling -- Analyze -- Mother Goose land -- Analyzing characters -- Associative thinking -- Associative thinking game -- Riddles -- Fairy tale alphabet -- Attribute listing -- Create a chant -- Data bank -- Brainstorming -- Poetry writing -- Brainstorming session -- Classify/categorize -- Word categories -- Guess the group -- Wizard of Oz exercise -- Compare -- Compare exercises -- Comprehension -- Comprehension questions -- Comprehension ofa visual -- Conceptualize -- Developing a concept -- Fantasy concept -- Creative thinking -- Creative thinking exercises -- Critical thinking -- Critical thinking exercise -- Decision making -- Decision making exercises -- Deductive thinking -- Deductive thinking exercises -- Elaboration -- Elaboration exercises -- Evaluation -- Evaluation exercises -- Fluency/flexibility -- Fluency exercises -- Forecasting -- Forecasting exercises -- Generalizing -- Generalizing exercises -- Grouping -- Grouping exercises -- Hypothesize -- Take a poll -- Imagination -- Imagination questions -- Create a Cinderella -- Inductive reasoning -- Catch the clue -- Putting a tale back together -- Inferring -- Inferring exercises -- Interpret -- Interpreting exercises -- Jargon -- Judge -- Judging exercises -- Knowledge -- Knowledge exercises -- Logical thinking -- Logic puzzles -- Metaphorical thinking -- Using metaphor -- Mnemonics -- Mnemonics exercises -- Originality -- Originality exercises -- Perceptual thinking -- Perception exercises -- Planning -- Planning exercises -- Predicting -- Predicting exercises -- Predictive reading -- Problem solving -- Problem-solving exercises -- Questioning -- Reversible thinking -- Sequencing -- Symbolic thinking -- Write your own fairy tale.