Yolanda the Yarnspinner

Introduction and Overview of Primary Education Thinking Skills, PETS

Meet Yolanda the Yarnspinner.

This character focuses on divergent and creative thinking through storytelling and wordplay. The emphasis is on using a creative imagination to see many possibilities in ordinary events and developing colorful vocabulary. Students become fluent in their thinking and flexible with their ideas.

Key Vocabulary:  

divergent, 

imagination, 

storytelling, 

possibilities, 

stem, 

branch, 

create, 

wordplay