Grade-wise story mapping
Crow - Critical Thinking
Crow is mapped with Critical Thinking for Grade 1 - Life Skills Stories.
How this story builds critical thinking
This page links the story Crow from the EAST Grade 1 books to the life skill Critical Thinking. Teachers can use the story to start a short class talk, ask children how the characters showed this skill, and connect it to a real moment from their own day. Parents can do the same at home after reading the story together.
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Explanation of life skills Critical thinking happens when children draw on their existing knowledge and experience, as well as on their problem-solving skills, to do things like: Compare and contrast Explain why things happen Evaluate ideas and form opinions Understand the perspectives of others Predict what will happen in the future Think of creative solutions AL QURAN Surah Al A’raf: 185 Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that Allah has created and (think) that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So in what statement hereafter will they believe? AL Hujurat: 49 O believers, if an evildoer brings you any news, verify ˹it˺, so you do not harm people unknowingly, becoming regretful for what you have done. HADITH Source: Sunan At-Tirmidhi 1327, Grade: Sahih A particular Hadith often comes up in these discussions about critical thinking. When the Prophet Muhammad was sending Muadh Ibn Jabal to Yemen, the Prophet asked the companion how he was going to make decisions as per the creed [questions from the Prophet are in bold]: How will you judge? Mu’adh said, “I will judge according to what is in the Book of Allah.” The Prophet said: What if it is not in the Book of Allah? Mu’adh said, “Then with the tradition (sunnah) of the Messenger of Allah.” The Prophet said: What if it is not in the tradition of the Messenger of Allah? Mu’adh said, “Then I will strive to form an opinion (ijtihad).” Abu Hurayrah said, “I heard Abu al Qasim (the Prophet), upon him be peace, say, ‘The best among you in Islam are those with the best manners, so long as they develop a sense of understanding.” IQBAL یورپ میں بہت روشنئ علم ہنر ہے حق یہ ہے کہ بے چشمۂ حیواں ہے یہ ظلمات