‘Think2Read’s baseline comprehension is the only one I know that assesses children’s literal, inference, evaluative understanding as well as summarising, clarifying and prediction skills…’
Robert James, Head teacher of Coed-y-lan Primary school, South Wales
Independent thinking and collaborative learning across the curriculum
‘SPECtacular’ Transferable Thinking Power
The course includes:
‘The children are able to make links of their own to other areas of learning. They evaluate their own progress constantly and are amazed by their growing ability to reason and make deductions that they can justify from their own enquiry’
RIO/ Dartington SchoolChange School Project evaluation, 2011
‘The outcome of this process has resulted in children giving other children’s questions and viewpoints as much credence as their teachers’.
Literacy Co-ordinator, Dartington Primary SchoolRIO/Creative Partnerships Change School evaluation
‘Enquiry is about finding the bigger picture. When you look for an answer – you land up finding much more than you started with.’
Orson, aged 9Dartington Primary School TTP pilot
‘Knowing how to ask and answer your own questions is like jumping off a cliff and landing in a pile of cushions – it’s exciting and safe at the same time.’
Bruno, age 8Dartington Primary School TTP pilot
‘TTP is basically like a massive treasure map – you dig and dig and keep on asking questions because the more you find, the more you want to know.’