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
Edith – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great use of engaging books to readaloud to students and make those teachable moments!
Seth – ST MARYS CITY (verified owner) –
Very good
ALYCIA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This was an excellent course in terms of providing great ideas to incorporate literature in the classroom on a more creative level. I love all the stories as well. I would like to incorporate them in my teaching.
Brittany – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great.
Teresa – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course can lead teachers to use strategies to help students develop thinking skills through the use of stories and how the learners can use different perspectives, visualization, and curiosity.
Edna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed the ideas they shared.
PATRICIA – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
incredible ideas – best training
Anna – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I liked this course because of the literature examples given with ceratain activities. It hit on bother upper and lower elementary grades.
Kathy – RIESEL ISD (verified owner) –
I really liked this course. I think it can be easy to be so focused on test preparation that we don’t take the opportunity to provide children the chance to express themselves creatively.
Pia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course for all teachers
Minerva – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Maria – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent to bring out a child’s creativity.
Cristina – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I enjoyed it
Paula – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Maribel – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the course, and the way it was explained. I wish they could provide written resources of their stations.
Kristie – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
This was a great course with many real life examples that teachers can use in their classrooms to promote all kinds of different thinking. This was great!
Angela – GRAND PRAIRIE ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas using literature and developing thinking and communication.
Shelly – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Love the suggested books and uses
THERESA – GOOSE CREEK CISD (verified owner) –
This is a wonderful course with many good resources and uses of children’s literature in the elementary classroom. I look forward to using many of these with my students.
Sonya – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
The information in this course when hand and hand with realistic application of the prompts of depth and complexity. Use children’s literature is a concrete way to introduce a more indepth way of thinking.
Stephanie – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was excellent.
Gwendolyn – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
If you need ideas on how to use children’s literature in your classroom to help students learn, this is the course for you. It was very informative with lots of good examples.
Kim – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
ok
Claudia – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course gives you a lot of children’s literature activities ideas and how to use them.
Jennifer – PROSPER ISD (verified owner) –
I loved all the great ideas and I am excited to add some of the these books to my classroom.
Juanita – Pilot (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course to help teachers utilize children’s literature to help with social and emotional skills.
Gina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was interesting.
Lisa – SAN FELIPE-DEL RIO CISD (verified owner) –
This course is great for ideas on how to use very specific books in a purposeful lesson. It helped me have guiding questions and gave me ideas of how to alter the lesson for my specific grade level.
Leslie – FORT BEND ISD (verified owner) –
Love this use of literature to teach different strategies!
Stacia – HILLSBORO CITY (verified owner) –
Always a fan of children’s literature!
Brenda – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
different ways to look at literature
Nohemi – HPS – HOUSTON SOUTH/WEST (verified owner) –
This course was very informational!
Susan – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Other will like this course. This should be available to all Gen-ed teachers.
Tracy – Region 17 (verified owner) –
Excellent ideas with several different children’s books.
Stephanie – HALLSVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This was great!!!! You will not be disappointed. I am a secondary teacher, but this was GOOD.
Susana – HPS – WEST TX (verified owner) –
Nice way to help our student express their emotions.
Karen – COSHOCTON CITY (verified owner) –
Very insightful and totally delightful!
Melissa – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course had a wealth of resources and multiple ways to use them to engage your students and guide them to think in different ways.
Charla – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Presenters give fitting examples of children’s literature and ways to implement them in the classroom.
Karen – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
This is an excellent course for elementary literature, as well as for students in power reading in upper levels. I also believe these strategies and books are great for relunctant learners in middle and high school.
Eliza – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
I liked the books mentioned and the discussions that can be made while reading the books to the class.
Serena – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
The flyer I received for this course abbreviated the title, so I missed that this was geared specifically at primary learners; I was expecting something more universal. That said, I found that following this along brought to mind many ways in which secondary students can still benefit from help developing critical thinking and even social skills.
Jill – DRIPPING SPRINGS ISD (verified owner) –
Great course with lots of strategies and ideas.
Debbie – NORDONIA HILLS CITY (verified owner) –
I loved all of the books that were presented.
Ashley – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Vanessa – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course was extremely beneficial in giving many ideas in ways children’s literature can be used for some SEL lessons and introductions to units.
Sharon – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
This course was a challenge to relate and find ways to possibly utilize the strategies because of the subject I teach which is not ELAR, but it did give me a different perspective and some ideas on ways I could use some strategies.
Kim – ST MARYS CITY (verified owner) –
This is definitely a primary course.
Brenda – VICTORIA ISD (verified owner) –
I loved the ideas on how to use children’s literature to teach creative thinking skills.
Aliscia – EVERMAN ISD (verified owner) –
This was very informative.