This document provides examples of thinking skills activities that teachers can use to develop students' language proficiency. The activities include having students list examples of proper nouns, their friends' favorite foods, and types of feelings along with pictures. As students' skills progress, teachers can demonstrate how to incorporate pronoun substitution, combining ideas, and descriptive language into descriptions of things like brown bears. The document also asks questions to prompt students' thinking about Southeast Asia and identifying external characteristics and examples of animals.