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Explain, Predict and Imagine provides opportunities for children at Key Stage 2 and beyond, to develop their verbal reasoning skills. The pack contains a range of eye-catching illustrations depicting a complex situation or dilemma. Each illustration is accompanied by a set of questions which requires the child to explain what is happening, predict outcomes and use their imagination.
The National Curriculum for English recognises the important role good language skills play in the development of reading and writing. As pupils progress through the higher key stages, the receptive and expressive language demands required of them significantly increase. They are expected to participate in verbal reasoning and problem-solving tasks which require advanced language and thinking skills, well beyond simple cause and effect. These include predicting, hypothesising, explaining, and comparing. It is, therefore, inevitable that pupils with speech, language and communication difficulties are often disadvantaged in their acquisition of literacy skills.
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Scenarios included within our best-selling Explain, Predict, Imagine resource is designed to promote verbal reasoning and thinking skills.
Ideal for one-to-one or small group work, this “Explain, Predict, Imagine” verbal reasoning resource is suitable for a wide age and ability range. Full instructions for use are contained within the pack, including a list of questions associated with each image. Look at the pictures together with the children, asking them questions about what is happening, why it happened and how it happened. Adults and children will both be ‘thinking aloud’ and exploring ideas, so there are no right or wrong answers for many of the questions.
The pack also includes sample cloze activities for pupils to record the narrative they have attached to the picture. Once all of the questions have been answered and those answers discussed, children are encouraged to develop a verbal narrative account of the picture, using all the elements of the responses they have given.
Age range: KS2 and beyond.
Format: PDF file, 44 A4 pages, inc. black and white alternative pictures (33 pages of instructions, sample cloze activity sheets and ten coloured A4 scenario pictures).
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7 to 11 years, 11 to 16 years
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