Description
Let primary students amaze you with creativity and critical thinking skills. Discover great resources that are probably already in the school library to help you explore results-based thinking. Come with an open mind, willing hands, and a loving heart for the littlest learners!
In this course, participants will use children’s literature to help primary learners:
- Engage in creative thinking, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Better understand acceptance and individuality
- Practice problem-solving
- Develop visual and spatial thinking skills
Stephanie – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Love the activities and the variety of books.
Belinda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed all of the strategies/ideas presented! Primary grade levels would definitely benefit from this presentation.
Jill – WYLIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great books. Great ideas on implementing literature in the class.
Lesa – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of different ideas using a variety of books.
Bailey – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great! It gave so many great books that can help get students thinking critically and creatively. I cannot wait to do this in my classroom this year!
Roberta – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas that can be used with all students in the classroom.
Molly – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Loved getting ideas for great books to read with my students.
Betty – EULA ISD (verified owner) –
Very Informative
Virginia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has good examples
Selina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course introduced me to many new books that I haven’t heard of. I wrote some down!
Robin – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Wonderful book ideas.
Sonya – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Loved all of the books and response ideas.
Amanda – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed hearing different ways that others use literature.
Deedy – Private Pay (verified owner) –
This was awesome! So many different ways to utilize good literature to teach kids.
Amy – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
The ideas in this course will work with your entire classroom of children, and I appreciate that.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Helpful for bringing in problem solving and creativity.
Margaret – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This course shares lots of good books to use in helping students with acceptance and individuality, problem solving and looking at things from a different perspective.
Lori – RIVER VIEW LOCAL (verified owner) –
This was a great reminder of books to use for social/emotion learning,creativity, and several other areas of learning.
Amanda – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked the presentation and resources used in this course. A lot of the books discussed in this course I am familiar with and know my students will enjoy reading them to think creatively.
Erica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I believe that this course was very beneficial in helping open my mind to new ideas.
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I would rate this course a 4. It is every enlighting course and easy to implement in the classroom.
Maria I – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I think that this course was very helpful and refreshing to get new ideas from the teachers that have experience in the field of child literature.
Brenda – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course that provides strategies which will help my students improve their reading skills
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course that provided literature strategies and examples on how to engage students and enhance their learning while boosting meaningful involvement in the classroom
Terri – EAST MUSKINGUM LOCAL (verified owner) –
The activities are appropriate for K-3 gifted and typical students.
Meghan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I gained some new ideas for use in my kindergarten classroom. However, this class is not what I expected. It was all about using children’s literature to expand student thinking, not stations.
Jo Ann – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I really like the different strategies used with the different children’s books.
Adriana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
How literature activates are fun
Elizabeth – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
LOVE the mentor texts and activities that were discussed in this course!
Jeannie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent presentation, It address and incorporate the GT components into the literature lessons thus allowing students to evaluate their creative thinking skills.
Monica – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
Great course with some interesting ideas.
Jessica – CARROLL ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the real world connections and the examples straight from the book that we can use in our classroom.
Audreanna – DRISCOLL ISD (verified owner) –
Greater literature that can be incorporated in the classroom. The stories as relevant and engaging. This course shows you multiple ways to use these stories in your classroom and help your student connect and be creative.
Yvonne – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I learned new instructional strategies.
Teresa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great way to incorporate the books with creative thinking.
Peggy – MIDWAY ISD – WOODWAY (verified owner) –
This course was very informative. I loved the books that were used. The speaker not only showed a book, but gave several examples of activities to do with this book. It also would be easy to piggy-back some of these ideas with other books.
Summer – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Lots of great ideas to connect literature and learning!
Brooke – HUGHES SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Not all discussion questions were visible.
Jamaica – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
loved it.
Darlene – NEW BREMEN LOCAL (verified owner) –
Great ideas for introducing social and emotional topics
Clemencia M. – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Unrelevant for 5th. Grade level.
Nora – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This was very creative.
Noemi – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
ty
Cecily – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
very informal and helpful.
Beverly – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course is great to get your creative juices flowing for children’s literature!
Jordan – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I like how these courses are very easy to navigate. I also really like the different strategies and activities the course provided.
Diana – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great Course with many different skills that can be taught through literature.
Mindy – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
Very interesting!
Roxanne – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Very good and helpful
Michelle – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
It had some good resources and ideas.