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Questions and Key words for Critical Thinking Are you sure? How do you know? Can you tell me why? Remembering You want to find out what the children know Understanding You want to find out what the children understand Applying You want to support the child in solving a problem, using what has been learned Analysing You want to support the child to examine and break down information into parts Evaluating You want to support the in reflecting on and evaluating work and ideas Creating You want to support the child to represent information in a new or alternative way. Who Tell me in your own How you solve....using what you’ve learned...? What are the parts or features of...? What well? What changes would you make to solve...? What Which is the best answer, and why? What do you know already that could help you? What is the theme ...? What would you change? Can you think of another way? Where What facts and ideas show...? What other way would you plan to...? How is... related to...? How could it be improved? Can you predict/estimate? What do you think it’s going to be? When How are the same? Different? What would happen if...? How you sort these? Do you agree with the actions...? with the outcome.? How you adapt...to create a different...? Which What is the effect of...? What do you you need to do next..? Why do you What is your opinion of...? What information you use to support these views? How could you put all your ideas together? Why What is the main idea of..? How you use what you’ve learned? What evidence can you find to support this? What conclusions can you draw...? What/which is the most important and why? Why did they choose..? How would you do it differently?
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