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Critical thinking Common Core RI.5.8 resources under $5
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Mystery Reading Comprehension | Making Inferences | CSI
This Crime Scene Investigation Activity has everything you need for an engaging hands-on experience that reinforces critical thinking, inference, and good old-fashioned common sense! Did someone say, CANDY? This workshop requires a little bit for investigation purposes. It's up to you if you want your students to sample the evidence afterward.**Note that a variety of candy is required for the hands-on investigation. Suggested candies are listed in the Teacher's Directions.This critical thinking
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4th - 6th
Reading Log - Independent Reading Response Homework Log - Use with any book
A few years ago, I ditched timers and parent signatures from my nightly reading homework log – and I’ve never looked back. This resource was created from a need to engage students in their independent reading rather than make it a dreaded chore. This Homework Reading Log contains two main parts: the reading log and a question choice sheet. On the log, students list the book they read each night and then choose a response question to show what they've learned from their reading. Students are to
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3rd - 5th
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Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grade 5)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in fifth grade. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in fifth grade. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
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5th
Wish Movie Guide (PG - 2023) | Courage | Hope | Integrity
Challenge students to explore the depths of courage, hope, and resistance in Wish with this engaging movie guide. Analyze how the director creates suspense through dialogue and setting. Debate the moral complexities of leadership and power as portrayed by the king's authoritarian rule and Asha's principled stand against it. Compare the island of Rosas from the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie using song lyrics and examples from the story. Reflect on Asha's growth from being insecur
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4th - 8th
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American Revolutionary War Lesson Plan for 5th-8th Grades | THREE Lessons!
The American Revolutionary War Lesson Plan is PERFECT for those teaching 5th to 8th grade U.S. history to their students. These three amazing lessons cover everything from the major battles of the American Revolution and key historical figures such as George Washington, the historical significance of Valley Forge, Paul Revere's Midnight Ride, and so MUCH more! These lessons have been designed to cover THREE classroom periods and, if needed, may easily be stretched out into more!The incredible re
Grades:
5th - 8th
They Thought WHAT? - Fact vs. Opinion - Critical Thinking - Elementary
They Thought WHAT? Fact vs. Opinion and more! Critical thinking (Elementary)In search of an engaging lesson plan that sharpens critical thinking skills in your elementary students? Your search ends here! Help your students become critical thinkers, with depth and complexity, not just on April Fools' Day, but every day, developing a habit of careful consideration in how they approach information and decisions.Our "Fact vs. Opinion" lesson plan is a great addition to your classroom, supply plans,
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2nd - 6th
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Comprehensive Collection of Over 60 Graphic Organizers
Unleash the full potential of your classroom with this expansive set of graphic organizers designed to boost reading comprehension across both literary and informational texts. From the classic T-charts to intricate attribute charts, your lessons will be brimming with creativity and critical thinking. ✏️Our collection is more than just tools; it's a complete strategy to engage and inspire every student. Each graphic organizer comes with detailed instructions, practical classroom applications, an
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2nd - 6th
Labeled CCSS Comprehension Questions using a High Interest 5th Grade Text_Sharks
Designing Questions Based on Grade Level Reading StandardsStudents read this high interest passage and answer short answer questions based on the CCSS for 5th grade informational texts. Using high-interest passages to answer questions based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) offers several advantages for students:High-interest passages captivate students' attention and motivation, making them more eager to read and comprehend the text.High-interest passages often relate to students' inter
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5th
The Mystery of the Vile Valentines: Critical Thinking Mystery Printable Activity
In this PDF downloadable and printable mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, your students have to figure out who sent rude Valentines to everyone in Mr. Xi's third grade class. Mr. Xi got statements from 5 students. One of them is lying. Can your students figure out which one?This is a printable PDF edition. Click here or the PowerPoint edition of The Vile Valentine.What is a Clue by Clue Mystery?It's a great warm-up, critical thinking game, conversation starter, fi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Interactive Google Slides Notebook for Who is George Lucas?
Do you have a student that needs a bit of motivation? Well this is the book to do so. Who Is George Lucas? is a great biography that tells the story of a very unmotivated students that finds his passion. George Lucas changed how movies are made. This book is also filled with tons of information about the movie industry. MOSTLY it is a true story about finding your passion. Includes: Interactive Google Slides notebookActivities for each chapterReading Strategies for each chapter8 Five Question Ad
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4th - 6th
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Distance Learning Critical Thinking Mystery Activity: Candy Thief Google Slides
In this mystery activity that encourages discussion and critical thinking, students investigate who stole a bag of candy from a trick or treater on Halloween night. There are three witness, but one of them is lying. Can your students use their logic, critical thinking, and reading skills to analyze their statements and figure out who the liar is?This is the Google Slides version. There is also seperate PowerPoint versions here as well as a Printable PDF Version here. This activity is easy to sha
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday Mysteries and Puzzles Bundle: Four Critical Thinking Activities
Reading Logs My Way
These are five graphic organizers made to engage students in the creative way kiddos need and at the same time guide them to think and respond about what they are reading to match the requirements of the Common Core State Standards.
Reading Logs My Way by Angela Stathopoulos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Grades:
4th - 5th
Analyzing Current Events
Students will identify if the topic is controversial, questions morality, or has a bias within the information; identify where in the world it is happening in relation to where the student lives; answer questions about the article; form their own opinions; form questions they have after analyzing; and finally write a summary that encompasses all of the above information.All three pages can be given to students or select pages can be distributed to meet individual needs. I constructed the resourc
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5th - 12th
Close Reading Task Card Station and Choice Boards
Close reading is a vital piece of the Common Core classroom. Using the close reading process with non-fiction is one of the most important shifts in effective teaching and learning. My students close read regularly in my classroom in both fiction and non-fiction text. During our Daily 5 Read to Learn (formerly Listen to Reading) rotation, my students have an Article of the Week that they are expected to practice independent close reading strategies, including reading and rereading the articl
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4th - 6th
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Biography Book Clubs for ANY Biography
Designed to be used with multiple book clubs simultaneously! Questions pertain to biographies and are designed to get students thinking about how people leave legacies in their own time!
A Book Club project called The Impact Timeline rounds out the book club experience as it asks students to further explore their person's contributions for those that came after them!
If you liked, the Historical Fiction Book Clubs, Fantasy Fiction Book Clubs and/or Mystery Book Clubs from Gifted & Giggles,
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4th - 6th
Sleuth Reading Street, Gr. 5, Unit 1 Wk 1, Red Kayak
This lesson plan goes with the Sleuth magazine component of the new Common Core aligned reading series, Reading Street (2013), by Pearson. The article referenced “A Dream in Her Heart” is NOT included in this download.
Included in this download is everything you need to teach your students how to respond to this actual prompt. It includes the Lesson Plan, a Student Note-taking Graphic Organizer and answers, a Writing Graphic Organizer and answers, and an Exemplar Written Response Answer for th
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5th
Sleuth Reading Street, Gr. 5, Unit 1 Wk 5, Ten Mile Day
This lesson plan goes with the Sleuth magazine component of the new Common Core aligned reading series, Reading Street (2013), by Pearson. The article referenced “The Tree of Heaven” is NOT included in this download.
Included in this download is everything you need to teach your students how to respond to this actual prompt. It includes the Lesson Plan, a Student Note-taking Graphic Organizer and answers, a Writing Graphic Organizer and answers, and an Exemplar Written Response Answer for the
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5th
April Themed Informational Text Passages and Printables
Teach your students how to read informational text with these five passages about spring. This resource covers spring, robins, rain, Earth Day, and Arbor Day. Short informational text passages followed by reading strategies to help your students learn how to read informational text, as well as, improve reading comprehension skills. Engaging activities will show your students that informational text can be fun and interesting. Answer keys are included. Passages Include:• Robins• Spring• Rain•
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4th - 6th
Sleuth Reading Street, Gr. 5, Unit 1 Wk 3, Island of the Blue Dolphin
This lesson plan goes with the Sleuth magazine component of the new Common Core aligned reading series, Reading Street (2013), by Pearson. The article referenced “The World's Smallest Island Nation” is NOT included in this download.
Included in this download is everything you need to teach your students how to respond to this actual prompt. It includes the Lesson Plan, a Student Note-taking Graphic Organizer and answers, a Writing Graphic Organizer and answers, and an Exemplar Written Response
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5th
Sleuth Reading Street, Gr. 5, Unit 1 Wk 4, Satchel Paige
This lesson plan goes with the Sleuth magazine component of the new Common Core aligned reading series, Reading Street (2013), by Pearson. The article referenced “Major League Dreams” is NOT included in this download.
Included in this download is everything you need to teach your students how to respond to this actual prompt. It includes the Lesson Plan, a Student Note-taking Graphic Organizer and answers, a Writing Graphic Organizer and answers, and an Exemplar Written Response Answer for the
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5th
Before Reading Activity: Anticipation Guide
An Anticipation Guide is a researched based strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge. It also sparks curiosity about topics and themes that otherwise, would be uninteresting to the student. Before reading a text, students respond to several statements that challenge or support their initial ideas or beliefs about a particular topic, subject, theme, etc. This resource can be used with any informational or literary text which makes it an invaluable resource for
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Giver Opinion Writing Cooperative Learning Project
I’ve developed an opinion-writing project in which students read The Giver by Lois Lowry, answer a writing prompt, peer-edit, and revise their work. Cooperative learning activities take place during group discussions and peer editing.
This project does include below level and above level accommodations.
I have created this project for 5th grade after doing a read-aloud with The Giver. However, this could be done in upper grades, especially 7th grade. The Giver is a 7th grade level book.
The p
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5th - 9th
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Dynamic Discussions build Reading Comprehension using Collaboration strategies
I originally designed Dynamic Discussion in 2004 as a tool to support my fourth and fifth grade students to utilize while using the newspaper as their daily shared text. Today it supports Common Core instruction.Dynamic Discussions provide a collaborative forum using “accountable talk” or academic discourse using open ended-questions to dig deeper and to gain greater understanding after reading text. Increase student engagement, build confidence and empower students to take their learning to th
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Not Grade Specific
Common Core Reading, Informational Text, 5th Grade Question Builders
Each interactive (fillable) question builder guides students in generating questions that require them to apply a specific Common Core reading standard (5.1-5.9) for Informational Texts.
Question builders require students to use Bloom's highest levels while creating questions and correct and incorrect answer choices.
Student-generated questions with answer choices allow teachers to "see" what students are thinking while applying skills.
Differentiate with other question builders (one for almos
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5th
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