Thinking Train A: At The Zoo (Starter)

THE THINKING TRAIN AT THE ZOO - READER + ACCESS CODE (THE THINKING TRAIN A) When Lizzie and her mum go to the zoo, they see lots of different animals. Lizzie loves looking at the animals as they show her what they can do. That night when Lizzie goes to bed, she thinks about her day. And she realises she can do lots of special things, too! YLE: Starters Trinity: 1 Recording in British English You will activate the following thinking skills in this book: creative thinking, predicting, sorting and categorising, sequencing, making connections, finding evidence, cause and effect and problem solving. You will learn or revise the following vocabulary and structures: • adjectives • zoo animals • can • there is/are • to be • what’s The Thinking Train Series: Welcome to The Thinking Train, a unique series of picture books which focus on the development of children’s thinking skills through the use of stories. When children are involved in thinking and also in talking about their thinking with others, they reach higher levels of achievement in the future as well as developing superior thinking skills. The Thinking Train stories will encourage a love of reading and promote thoughtful interaction with books while developing children’s thinking skills. The activities, in carefully graded English, will automatically develop and practise their language skills, too. Typeset using leggimi! an open type font specially developed to promote easy reading. Copyright Sinnos.