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³Ô¹ÏÍø Training & Curriculum Specialist Cognitive Development Lesson 3 Apply Questions that ³Ô¹ÏÍø Thinking Skills
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Share the following guide with staff members to help them think of intentional questions they can ask children and youth that support thinking skills.

Provide Hints

  • Did you notice…?
  • Let’s look at…
  • I’m wondering about…
  • Does this look right to you?
  • What’s different about this?
  • This makes me think about the time when…?
  • Remember what we tried last time?
  • Should we try (this) or (that)?
  • What else might work here?

Make Observations

  • What do you see? Hear? Smell? Taste?
  • What do you notice?
  • Tell me more about this…
  • What makes you think that?
  • What is happening?

Plan, Predict, Problem-Solve

  • What do you think would happen if…?
  • Why do you think that happened?
  • How do you know that?
  • How did it work?
  • What changed? Why?
  • What else could we do?
  • What did you learn?

Adapted with permission from Head Start National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning (2013). Fostering Children’s Thinking Skills: Tips for Trainers Poster Set.