Although different thinking skills explicitly accommodate the listed High Yield Strategies, each skill allows for opportunities to incorporate a range of other examples of the 9HYS.
1. Identifying similarities and differences / 9. Questions, cues, and advance organizers / 9. Questions, cues, and advance organizers / 8. Generating and testing hypothesis
Associate:
Identify Similarities and Differences/
Connecting what you know with what you sense in the present (relationship, connection) / Analyse:
Examine details of a whole to provide interpretation/
Detailed examination of the elements of structure of something / Synthesise:
Use information to find a new structure or pattern / Act:
Doing something to achieve an aim, purpose or goal
Compare:describe how items are the same and different
  1. I can identify the items to compare
  2. I can choose the features I will use to compare the items
  3. I can tell how the items are the same or different based on the features
  4. I can use what I learned to generate a new idea or item
/ Analyse Perspectives: consider multiple perspectives about an issue
1. I describe a situation
2. I tell how one person sees it
3. I tell how a different person sees it
4. I give my opinion about the differences
5. I explain what I know now or how to make it better / Investigation: explain the structure or pattern of a topic, including the confusions
  1. I can describe an event or topic
  2. I can read and gather information about the topic
  3. I can say the main idea about the topic, or what is confusing about it
  4. I can read and gather more information
  5. I can use what I learned to make a new idea or to explain the confusion
/ Decide: select from among seemingly equal choices
  1. I can describe a decision I need to make
  2. I can identify my choices
  3. I can identify features that are important to consider
  4. I can assign a value score to each feature based on importance
  5. I can score each choice in relation to the feature
  6. I can multiply the feature score by the choice score
  7. I can identify the choice with the highest score
  8. I can use what I learned to explain the best choice

Classify: group similar items together based on similar traits
1. Name items to sort into groups
2. Sort the items and say why they are in a group
3. Say how items could go into different groups
4. Tell what you know now (new idea) or could do with the information (new item) / Systems Analysis: know how the parts of a whole impact the results:
1. I name something as a system
2. I tell how the parts work
3. I change one part and tell how it works now
4. I do it again with a different part
5. I explain what I know now or how to make it better / Argument: make a claim supported by evidence and examples
1. Tell about a situation
2. Make a statement about it
3. Explain with examples
4. Say what another position might be and say why it is incorrect
5. Tell what I know now or how to make the situation better
Argue-logos & ethos / Solve: navigate obstacles to find a good solution
  1. I can identify a goal
  2. I can explain the barriers that are in the way of reaching the goal
  3. I can identify a way to overcome a barrier (solution)
  4. I can repeat with other possible solutions
  5. I use what I learned to generate a solution

Analogy - the relationship or pattern between a known and unknown situation
1. Tell about a topic that is hard to understand
2. Explain a story or something you already know about that seems like the new topic in multiple ways
3. Tell how each part of what you know can explain the new topic
4. Tell what you know now (new idea) or could do with the information (new item) / Find Error in Reasoning: recognize errors in thinking
1. I tell about a situation
2. I can say what it is trying to get me to believe
3. I explain what might not be true
4. I explain my own choice and what I believe / Persuade: use emotional and rhetorical techniques to present the evidence in order to change viewpoints.
Argument that incorporates pathos & rhetorical devices / Test: observe, experiment, and explain
  1. I observe an event or situation
  2. I explain what I see or infer
  3. I predict something that can be tested
  4. I set up an experiment or survey
  5. I collect data and organize the results
  6. I use what I learned to take action

Create: design products or processes to meet specific needs
  1. I describe something that needs to be better
  2. I tell what it should be
  3. I make a model
  4. I listen to others tell me how to make it better
  5. I make it better
  6. I publish or produce it