This document describes the "Connect, Extend, Challenge" thinking routine. The routine helps students make connections between new ideas and prior knowledge, reflect on what they are learning, and identify ongoing questions. Students will work in groups and use colored paper (blue, purple, green) to write their thoughts on connecting, extending, or challenging ideas, which they will then post on a classroom mural. The teacher will use this routine at the end of class sessions to encourage students to reflect on and share their understanding.

1. M.4-T.2: Thinking routines
Ana Rosa González
TITLE OF THE THINKING ROUTINE
Connect, Extend, Challenge
EXPLANATION
The routine helpsstudentsmake connectionsbetweennew ideas and the knowledge they already have in the first moment but it also helps to reflect on
whattheyare learning. Italsoencourages them to take stock of ongoing questions, puzzles and difficulties. Sometimes students are not conscious about
theirownlearning,theyare notaware theyknowmanythingsthat are importantandinterestingandthis routine keeps a visible record of students' ideas.
RESOURCES
There will be a big mural at the end of the class similarto the one I add in the following page. Each group will
need to take three little papers to write their own thoughts on it, and later, stick them on the mural.
Here I add the papers they will need to take. Blue will be for connecting ideas, purple for extending ideas and
green for challenging ideas orconcepts.
You can find more information about this routine in the following link:
http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/03_ThinkingRoutines/03d_UnderstandingRoutines/ConnectExtendChallenge/Con
nectExtend_Routine.html

2. M.4-T.2: Thinking routines
Ana Rosa González

3. M.4-T.2: Thinking routines
Ana Rosa González
HOW AM I GOING TO USE IT?
The first time we will do this activity, we will do it all together so they can learn what it is expected with this activity. At the end of the first
session, the teacher will present the mural where there are different labels in different colours (blue, purple and green) and a question for
them to reflect and answer.
From the second day, the teacher will create 5 different groups, which will be the same as the ones they will end up working with through the
unit. At the end of each class, each group will share their thoughts for five, seven minutes, and they will need to take the three kinds of paper
and write their thoughts on it. Each group will go to their own mural and stick their little papers on it.