1. Creating Critical Thinking Activities for the English Classroom
Amanda McLoughlin

2. Overview What is critical thinking?
Looking at critical thinking and activity types
Some simple suggestions for incorporating critical thinking into your classroom

3. What?

4. creating
evaluating
analysing
applying
understanding
remembering

5. Thinking + activities = ?
Inferring meaning or interpreting information Improve or adapt something, plan, design or revise Defend a point of view Make an informed choice between two alternatives Assess, rank or prioritise various things Make links between things that don’t seem to be linked

6. Which is the odd one out? Explain why.
Generic activities
Which is the odd one out? Explain why.

7. Who is right? Persuade your group.

8. See, think, wonder…

9. Write a CV Amy Johnson Mahatma Ghandi Ada Lovelace

10. Create a new word from two of the words we learned today
Create a new word from two of the words we learned today. Write a definition for your word.

11. Make a text into a poem Make a tableau to represent the text

12. Reflection
Playlist this talk Hashtag this talk Make a rap about this talk Perform a radio advertisement about this talk to persuade others to attend it (10 seconds long)

13. Bilbiography