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(Visible Thinking Routine)

During the past week we decided to give our Grade 2 and Grade 3 students more opportunities to practice the CSI visible thinking routine. After listening to "The Empty Pot" story and discussing the main idea and author's message with our students, I asked the children to express their understanding of the main idea through the CSI visible thinking routine.

Boys and girls worked in groups, sharing their thinking and cooperatively choosing colors, symbols and images that illustrated the main idea of the story. Though it was still challenging for some students to compromise, I could see that they were familiar with the strategy and knew what they had to do and what the teacher's expectations were.

The students were very confident presenters!

Our students are learning to share their thinking and present their conclusions in different groups.