Higher Order Thinking Skills

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Higher Order Thinking Skills

• HOTS
• Created by Judi Granit

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Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

1. inferring
2. distinguishing different perspectives
3. explaining patterns
4. comparing and contrasting
5. explaining cause and effect
6. problem solving 

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Inferring

• To reach understanding by carefully considering
  the clues available.
• To read between the lines.

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Can you infer why he might be crying?

• What helped you infer?
• You have to look at the CONTEXT

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Can you use contextual clues to infer what
happened to this poor young man?
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We can use context to help us infer the meaning
of new words

• For example
• The word trunk has several meanings in
  English.
• Can you infer some of the meanings with the
  help of the context?

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He climbed the thick brown trunk of the tree.
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The largest animals on earth use their trunks to
eat and drink.
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The taxi driver helped me put my bags in the
trunk.
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We are able to infer meaning of sentences by
using our knowledge of the world.

• Look at the sentence
• The Senator admitted owning the gun that killed
  his wife.
• What can we understand that isnt actually stated?

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The Senator admitted owning the gun that killed
his wife.

• There is a Senator.
• He owns a gun.
• He is married.
• His wife is dead.
• That gun caused her death.
• The Senator admitted owning that gun.

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The Senator admitted owning the gun that killed
his wife.

• We can infer
• - that this would be a major news
  story about a public figure.
• - that the gun (or the bullet from
  it) has probably been already found and
  identified as the murder weapon.
• However, we CANT infer that the Senator killed
  his wife, or that the woman was murdered.

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Which way did the rabbit run?
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Sometimes we need more background knowledge to
infer correctly!
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Can you infer what is going on in this video
clip?
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vaGb8pMIeY6w
(Note for teacher stop the video before the
end!)
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Inferring the missing words

• Read the words to this song.
• Its called The Inference Song
• Can you infer what the missing words are?

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• Teacher note
• Let the students hear and see the song
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vm_ZNP5aj5fs

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Now you will read a short poem called
Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters. What can
you infer from it?
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• AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
• fromTheres a Hole in My Sidewalk The Romance
  of Self-Discovery by Portia Nelson
• I
• I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in
  the sidewalk.I fall in.I am lost I am
  helpless.It isnt my fault.It takes me forever
  to find a way out.
• II
• I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole
  in the sidewalk.I pretend I dont see it.I fall
  in again.I cant believe I am in the same
  placebut, it isnt my fault.It still takes a
  long time to get out.
• III
• I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole
  in the sidewalk.I see it is there.I still fall
  in its a habit.my eyes are openI know where
  I am.It is my fault.I get out immediately.
• IV
• I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole
  in the sidewalk.I walk around it.
• V
• I walk down another street.
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