Teaching children metacognitive skills (an understanding of how they learn) can help raise attainment by an average of seven months according to research carried out by the Education Endowment Fund. Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms handbook offers engaging lesson plans and activities to introduce and teach metacognition throughout a primary school, from Reception through KS1 and KS2.

With Rising Stars' Thinking Classrooms you can encourage transferrable learning skills such as planning and checking, boost children's independence, resilience and approach to learning, and develop teacher confidence with embedded CPD.

This comprehensive handbook also includes a clear introduction to metacognition and its benefits, pupil self-evaluation at the end of each activity, downloadable worksheets and templates, original and fun assembly ideas and fun assembly ideas and accompanying videos.

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Rising Stars UK Ltd .

Shirley Clarke is a foremost expert on formative assessment and much in demand as an education consultant, in the UK and internationally. An experienced primary teacher and advisory teacher, and a popular speaker, she runs numerous local and regional training courses on classroom assessment. Her courses and training days for teachers, and ongoing involvement in action research, give her a down-to-earth perspective on day-to-day classroom realities, which is reflected in her hugely popular books.