Powerful Thinking

Powerful Thinking will help teachers shift their beliefs around reading comprehension, literacy instruction and content-area learning. The thinking strategies in this remarkable book support explicit instruction and show teachers how to inspire students to connect, question, visualise, infer and transform their thinking across all areas of their learning.

Using the key concepts and strategies introduced in her ground-breaking book, Reading Power, Adrienne Gear shows teachers practical ways to create a ‘culture of thinking’ in the classroom. Adrienne illustrates simple ways to make thinking visible and argues for the importance of developing a common language for exploring oral literacy and nudging classroom conversations. The book investigates key concepts and lays the groundwork for stretching and linking thinking not only in literacy, but also in science, social studies, maths, art, music and PE.

The ready-to-use strategies in Powerful Thinking revolve around explicit, targeted lessons. Based on extensive classroom experience, the lessons and accompanying lists of recommended anchor books show how easy it is to turn text into tools for creating a content-rich learning environment. These activities demonstrate how students can think while they learn, as they build knowledge, make connections and construct meaning.

This remarkable book inspires teachers to motivate and engage learners, extend their content knowledge and help them develop into powerful readers and thinkers.