The Brain Power Story Hour ─ Higher Order Thinking with Picture Books

Polette describes how a "brain power" story hour can provide the opportunity to share books that help preschool and primary grade children develop the ability to think productively and critically. She offers children's and school librarians, teachers of early childhood gifted programs, parents, and homeschoolers booktalks and follow-up activities designed to build brain power through higher order thinking for specific early childhood thinking processes of conservation, seriation, classification, and reversibility, and the skills of developing verbal and linguistic, divergent/creative, visual/spatial convergent/analytical/mathematical/logical, evaluative/critical, interpersonal and intrapersonal, and naturalistic thinking, describing titles, questions, and activities to develop these skills. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nancy J. Polette is professor emeritus at Lindenwood University and former director of the University Laboratory School for young gifted children. She is the author of 12 children’s books and more than 100 professional books. Visit her website at www.nancypolette.com.