In Honor of the Scholars of Canadian Academy ~ Kobe, Japan

Thank you for sharing your wisdom, questions, and students with me. Your students are so lucky to you guiding their literacy journeys!

As you study thinking and support your students as growing readers, know that you have a cheerleader in Colorado :)

Here is a portrait of thinking dispositions to consider as you craft your work and make reading "an open book" for all your students (I am having difficulty formatting so that each of the frameworks can be seen here. The piece from Fountas and Pinnell and 21st Century Thinking may be missing as I post this. Just e-mail me and I will send you this as an attachment.). All the best!

Nurturing Students’ Thinking Dispositions: Focus of Learning

Laura Benson ~ LBopenbook@aol.com

7 Essential Life Skills Ellen Galinsky (2010), Mind in the Making	Compre-hension Strategies Pearson, Roehler, Dole, & Duffy (1992)	6 Facets of Understand-ing Wiggins & McTighe			5 Minds for the Future Howard Gardner	The 12 Systems of Strategic Action Fountas & Pinnell (2010) Ways of Thinking	21st Century Thinking Skills
Focus and Self Control	Monitoring Understanding	Self Knowledge The wisdom to know one’s ignorance and how one’s patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding.			The Disciplined Mind Employing ways of thinking associated with major scholarly disciplines (history, math, science, art, etc.) and major professions (law, medicine, management, finance, etc., as well as crafts and trades); capable of applying oneself diligently, improving steadily, and continuing beyond formal education.	Thinking Within the Text · Solving words · Monitoring and correcting · Searching for and using information · Summarizing · Maintaining fluency · Adjusting	Organizational Thinking Skills Remembering Summarizing Metacognition Goal Setting & Planning Formulating Questions Developing Hypotheses Learning How to Learn Problem Solving Decision Making
Perspective Taking	Inferring	Perspective and Interpretation			The Synthesized Mind Selecting crucial information from the copious amounts available; arranging that information in ways that make sense to self and to others.	Thinking Beyond the Text · Predicting · Making Connections o Personal o World o Text · Inferring · Synthesizing	Creative Thinking Skills Fluency Flexibility Originality Elaboration Imagery Curiosity Brainstorming Creative Problem Solving
Communicating	Synthesizing	Explanation			The Creating Mind Going beyond existing knowledge and syntheses to pose new questions, offer new solutions, fashion works that stretch existing genres or configure new ones; creation builds on one or more established disciplines and requires an informed “field” to make judgments of quality and acceptability.	Thinking About the Text · Analyzing · Critiquing	Critical Thinking Skills Using Inductive & Deductive Thinking Predicting Benefits & Consequences Identifying Values, Ideologies, & Bias Distinguishing Among Fact, Opinion, & Reasoned Judgment Determining the Accuracy of Information Judging Essential & Incidental Evidence Determining Relevance Identifying Missing Information Judging the Credibility of a Source Recognizing Assumptions & Fallacies Identifying Unstated Assumptions Detecting Inconsistencies in an Argument Identifying Ambiguity Identifying Exaggeration Determining the Strength of an Argument
Making Connections	Connecting/ Schema Theory	Empathy			The Respectful Mind Responding sympathetically and constructively to differences among individuals and among groups; seeking to understand and work with those who are different; extending beyond mere tolerance and political correctness.		Collaborative Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking	Identifying Importance/ Evaluating		Application		The Ethical Mind Abstracting crucial features of one’s role at work and one’s role as a citizen and acting consistently with those conceptualizations; striving toward good work and good citizenship.		Analytical Reasoning Skills Identifying Characteristics Recognizing Attributes Determining Critical Attributes Making Observations Comparing & Contrasting Categorizing & Classifying Criteria Setting Ranking, Prioritizing, & Sequencing Pattern Finding Predicting Determining Cause & Effect Making Analogies
Taking On Challenges	Questioning						Systems Thinking Skills
							Introspective Thinking (Knowing Self)