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Elementary Philosophy: Discussing Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
What does it mean to live a good life? What is happiness? What does it mean to truly be wise? These three concise and well-researched stories regarding Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle will act as catalysts for lively discussions that promote critical thinking, careful reading, and reflection on some of the most important questions imaginable. Each can stand alone, or the three can be strung together to form a small unit on ancient Greek philosophy.Appropriate for 4th, 5th, 6th grade and up. Inclu
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Elementary Philosophy Bundle: Diverse Reading and Discussion Activities
UDL lesson plan: THE MAGIC FISH
The story for this lesson came from a Scholastic Publishing resource book, which featured a Brothers Grimm tale....Feel free to start singing the song in class, to bring the students to attention. The explanation of the Brothers Grimm was provided by Wikipedia.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
How To Steal a Dog Literature Circle Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor! This is a fantastic book about a young girl who experiences hardships, moral dilemma and friendships. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along with some vocabulary words to reflect on as you go. The book's levels are: 4.4 Grade level, 700 Lexile, and 40 DRA. Enjoy!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Sarah Plain and Tall Novel Study with Vocabulary and Comprehension Questions
This is a novel study for the book Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. This comes with the study for the entire novel, which can be used in class, remotely or in a hybrid setting. An instruction guide is provided and can be modified to suite your teaching style and students. Study includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter. Questions promote higher-order thinking as the novel progresses. The included questions provide opportunities for students to relate to the novel throug
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3rd - 6th
Yang the Third-Literature Circle Study Guide
If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family by Lensey Namioka! This is a fantastic book: third daughter Mary Yang makes an unexpected new friend while trying to hide a kitten from her family. For each chapter of the book, I created critical thinking questions for your students to answer along. I've also included the answers to the questions. The book's levels are: 5.3
Grades:
1st - 5th
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Island: Shipwreck Book 1 by Gordon Korman Novel Study, Vocabulary, Comprehension
This is a novel study for the 1st book in the Island Series by Gordon Korman. Island: Book 1: Shipwreck. This comes with the study for the entire novel, which can be used in class, remotely or in a hybrid setting. An instruction guide is provided and can be modified to suite your teaching style and students. Study includes questions and vocabulary for each chapter. Questions promote higher-order thinking as the novel progresses. The included questions provide opportunities for students to relat
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Walk Two Moons: Critical Thinking Activities
Activities included are Comparing & Contrasting Characters Venn diagram, Vocab War, Theme Statement Generator and Themes Around the Room, ASTDC paragraphs and a unit test.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Stem Starters for Read Alouds
When reading aloud a book, teachers can have stem starters to help develop questions that help students make a prediction, ask a question, clarify something, make a connection, or make a comment. In doing so, the teacher is encouraging higher order thinking, boosting comprehension, and preparing students to make inferences. Sending this handout home to parents also helps them to have a set of stem starters to ask questions while reading with their child.
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PreK - 4th
Who's to Blame? The Tragedy of the (Steamboat) Sultana (Civil War era)
The worst maritime river disaster in U.S. history is rarely discussed or even known about by most. The tragedy of the steamboat Sultana was overshadowed due to the turmoil of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and consequently Booth's assassination. But the Sultana was a horrific event that also can be tied to being a casualty of the Civil War .Students will analyze the events surrounding the historical tragedy and determine within small group discussions, who or what they believe are the most resp
Grades:
4th - 12th
Frindle Book Study Questions
There's finally a way to integrate Andrew Clements' humorous, mischievous, and heartwarming novel called Frindle! The prominent features of this document include:
-3-6 questions for Chapters 1-14 (complete set!)
-A wide range of open-ended language arts questions addressing skills such as:
a. Cause & Effect
b. Word Meaning
c. Inferencing
d. Character interactions & traits
e. Compare & Contrast
f. Making Predictions
g. Figurative Language
h. Character,
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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Reading Response Cards
This package includes 100 reading response cards. They are great for students to pick one and respond to anything they read. These can be used during guided reading, literature circles, independent novel studies or for an activity that can be used by other students independently working while you are guided reading with a group.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Open-Ended Questions correlated with Revised Bloom Domains
Opened-Ended questions by set (1-12). Helps students to develop higher order thinking while reading. Helps ALL levels of readers. Helps students to increase reading comprehension. Easy to include in centers.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Corduroy Critical Thinking Activities
2 Critical Thinking Activities to use with the book, Corduroy. These questions and activities were created for 2nd and 3rd graders. They can be done independently or in Literature Circles/Guided Reading Groups.
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
200+ Questions SLP Speech Therapy Guide K-5 Sylvester & The Magic Pebble
George and Martha SLP Guide - Group Therapy for Students with Mixed Goals
by Katie Mahaney, M.S., CCC-SLP
(For use with George and Martha by James Marshall)
This literary guide can be used to target several goal areas at once. The only thing you need other than this guide is a copy of the classic children’s book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig.
The guide consists of 214 questions in total.
There are 18 pages of questions, covering 4 goal areas on each page.
On each page ther
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani - No-Prep Novel Lessons
You get everything you need for the price of less than one novel. My lesson plans are very detailed. They expose students to many literary terms and devices, used to make a story come to life (i.e. Theme, Conflict, Characterization, Similes, Foreshadowing, etc.). Common Core Standards for reading (literature) and writing are also included.This novel study includes:• A Teacher’s Guide (objectives, discussion questions, and answer keys) • A Student’s Packet (essential questions, vocabulary,
Grades:
4th - 10th
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The Giver - Exploring an Ethical Dilemma
The Giver – Exploring an Ethical Dilemma Posed to the Reader by making connections and comparisons to Star Trek.
Students are engaged in examining ethical dilemmas around choosing to dissent, question authority, and potentially interfere with another society or group's rules and development. This sheet gives instructions to teachers and students for how to draw thematic connections to an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, leading to journal entries and a "fishbowl" discussion.
This is
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Grades:
5th - 10th
Read aloud plan for Hairy Bear by Joy Cowley
Read aloud lesson plan for Hairy Bear by Cowley- Done over four readings. With turn and talks/think alouds/wonders/ retells
Grades:
K
Among the Hidden Novel Study - Probably Passage Activity Chapters 1 & 2
Probable passage for Among the Hidden to practice writing Gist statements - requires students to organize words by setting, character & conflict and predict outcomes using preliminary knowledge of the story
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Invasion of the Overworld Study Guide
One of the issues we face today as educators is how to address the topic of bullying with our students. Invasion of the Overworld was written by a father whose son, a devoted Minecraft player, had his IP address accessed by strangers and all the work that he had done in creating his Minecraft world, destroyed. To add insult to injury, those who destroyed the boy's work posted what they had done on the Internet. Determined to help heal his devastated son, Mark Cheverton wrote this Minecraft-ce
Grades:
5th - 8th
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TPACK (Remote) Behavior Management Red & Green Choices
Remote TPACK Analysis 1: Lesson Plan Behavior Management Lesson-Description: The initial discussion will be online during our Live Group, I will remind the students about the classroom community rules of “Be Safe”, “Be Respectful”, and “Be Responsible”. I will ask students “How do they like to be being treated?” From this question, scholars will be placed in one of two breakout rooms and brainstorm a list of behaviors they believe are respectful, kind, fair, a
Grades:
PreK - 4th
Bad Kitty School Daze Comprehension Packet
This packet just asked one or two questions per chapters. It asks students to write their responses in complete sentences and with complete thoughts. I usually make my students restate the question being asked in the answer on this. You do not have to be that elaborate with your students for younger grades. The questions range from summary, comprehension, prediction to text relationship questions.
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2nd - 4th
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Higher Order Thinking Question Cards
Free Printable Higher Order Thinking Cards for your classroom. Teach your students higher levels of critical thinking by simply changing the verb at the start of the question. Use these question starters to enrich student thinking, increase student engagement, and increase levels of understanding for all your learners.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Sentence Frames
These are Spanish sentence stems that help with academic conversation when students agree, disagree, add on to one another, and need further clarification.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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