REthinking downloads

Below, you will find a list of pages from the REthinking books available to download for ease of use. They are supplied as pdfs, which can just be printed off and used, or as Word documents, which you can customise to your own needs in a word processor.

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• Book 1, Page 30 – Sample discussion plan pdf version/MS Word version
• Book 1, Page 31 – Sample questionnaire pdf version/MS Word version

• Book 3, Page 15 – Sample questionnaire: David and Saul pdf version/MS Word version
• Book 3, Page 17 – Sample discussion plan: Harmander Singh pdf version/MS Word version
• Book 3, Page 26 – Sample discussion plan: Who am I? pdf version/MS Word version
• Book 3, Page 27 – Sample questionnaire: You can't escape your life record pdf version/MS Word version
• Book 3, Page 28-9 – Question bank pdf version/MS Word version

• Book 7 – Extra Stories:
  • Zacchaeus – A Story about Life Changes (pdf)
  • Toybox – A Story about Faith Today (pdf)
• Book 7, Page 13 – Inuit India knife picture of the story of Esther (pdf)
  This story first appeared in Cracking RE Issue 15, published by The Stapleford Centre.
• Book 7 – Stories featured in the book (Pages 20-31):
  • The Parable of the Talents (pdf)
  • The Golem – A Tale of Magic (pdf)
  • Jonah – Running Away (pdf)
  • Jacob's Dream (pdf)
  • A Dinner of Smells (pdf)
  • The Woman who was fasting – Making yourself stronger (pdf)
  • Erik the Mule Goes on Trial (pdf)
  • Miro – A Personal Account of Forgiveness (pdf)
  • Death of a Guru (pdf)
  • Saul to Paul (pdf)
  • The Mosquito Man (pdf)

• Book 8 – Key concepts for Christianity (pdf)
• Book 8 – Stories from Christianity grouped by key concepts (pdf)
  This extract first appeared in 'Toolkit: Story and Drama' by Margaret Cooling, available from The Stapleford Centre.
• Book 8 – An example of Concept Cracking (pdf)
  This example first appeared in Cracking RE Issue 4, published by The Stapleford Centre.

• Book 12 – Additional values stories and lesson ideas:
  • Key Stage 1 – Infant lesson ideas
    These extracts first appeared in Cracking Infant RE
  1. Putting others first (pdf)
  2. Choices (pdf)
  3. Giving (pdf)
  4. Putting things right (pdf)
  • Key Stage 2 – Junior lesson ideas
    These extracts first appeared in Cracking Junior RE
  1. Putting others first (pdf)
  2. Choices (pdf)
  3. Giving (pdf)
  4. Putting things right (pdf)
  • Key Stage 3/4 – Values stories written by Elizabeth Kilkelly
  1. Animal Rights (pdf)
  2. Marriage and Divorce (pdf)
  3. Stealing (pdf)
  4. Euthanasia (pdf)
  5. Racism (pdf)

• Book 14 – Teaching worldviews in RE
  • Lesson examples and tables
  • 2.2 Creation. How did the universe start?(pdf)
  • 2.3 The environment. Why should we care for planet Earth?(pdf)
  • 2.4 Visiting Places of worship. Can we learn anything from visiting places of worship?(pdf)
  • 2.5 Rites of passage. Is there any point in having religious ceremonies to mark important stages of life?(pdf)

• Book 16 – Religion and Science-seeing with both eyes
  • Page 6, God or science?(pdf)
  • Page 11, Truth and evidence (pdf)
  • Page 17, Literary genre in the Bible (pdf)
  • Page 22, Origins (pdf)
  • Page 24, Tree with branches (pdf)
  • Page 25, The Creation of men and women (pdf)
  • Page 28, Signpost (pdf)
  • Page 30, Road signs (pdf)

• Book 17 – Meeting the needs of able, gifted and talented pupils in RE
  • Resources, books for classroom use and useful websites for teacher and pupils. (pdf)

• Book 18 – Visual literacy in RE teaching and learning

• Activities to complement the 3Rs visual literacy toolkit (pdf)
• Case study 1. Church of the Light (pdf)
• Case study 2. Madonna and Child (pdf)
• Case study 3. Calvary (pdf)
• Case study 4. The Baptised of Christ (pdf)
• Case study 5. Chi Ro carpet page from the Book of Kells (pdf)
• Images to project (Power Point)