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Critical thinking assessment pdfs
Fairy Tales 2nd Grade Fairytales, Folktales, & Fables Unit Lessons & Activities
A fairy tale (fairytale), folk tale, and fable close reading unit can make writing lesson plans a breeze and ensure a deeper exploration into understanding stories while students provide text evidence from specified Mentor Texts (a list is included!). This interactive reading unit uses three different genres to teach deeper thinking about the main characters, the moral of the story, text structure, point of view, and comparing and contrasting stories. Graphic organizers are included and can be u
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2nd - 3rd
Super Bowl Reading Comprehension Passages & Activities: Football & Super Bowl 24
The Big Game- Super Bowl 24 is right around the corner. This Big Game football printable for kids allows students to interact with text while learning all about the history of the Super Bowl. Your students will focus on asking and answering questions, main idea, word meaning, text features, and illustrations making meaning in the text.Standards Covered:RI.1 (Asking and Answering Questions)RI. 2 (Main idea)RI. 4 (Word meaning)RI.5 (Text Features)RI. 7 (Illustrations to match the text)An assessmen
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2nd - 3rd
Goal Setting Lessons and Templates for SMART Goals - Growth Mindset Activities
Teach students to set SMART goals with these classroom goal setting lessons and worksheets. By the end of the unit, students will understand what it means to set SMART goals. These five goal-setting lessons have a whole group lesson plan as well as small group and individual activities to help students see and understand the individual components of setting SMART goals. It's also great for SEL or Social-Emotional Learning!Through these lessons, students will have a deeper understanding of wha
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Goal Setting & Data Portfolio BUNDLE - SMART Goals for All Grade Levels
Describing & Inferring with Picture of the Day - Vol. 3 #hellopotd
This is Picture of the Day, Volume 3. Compatible with Google Slides.Picture of the Day, Volume 1 is my #1 Bestseller due to the high level of interest, engagement, language and higher order thinking. Volume 2 is sold here on TpT as well. See Picture of the Day Volume 1 to read over 1,700 comments left by buyers. When Picture of the Day is done daily, by the last day of school, your students will have taken an entire trip around the world! In 2018, Picture of the Day won an international award i
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K - 8th
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Depth of Knowledge (DOK) 105 Question Stem Cards MATH EDITION
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With the new assessments coming into play, students will be expected to answer more complex questions. Are your students answering higher-order questions properly and regularly? If not, use these questioning stems to get kids thinking more deeply about their learning.
This set of DOK Level 1-4 cards, makes it easy to scroll through and select various levels of questions before, during, and after instruction. They are
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PreK - 12th
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Force and Motion Worksheet Reading Passages for 2nd Grade Science- Push & Pull
Force and motion comprehension passages with questions, a bonus experiment, and a push-and-pull sort are perfect for integrating science into the reading block while also giving back time to do hands-on science. This pack is also great for sub plans. This resource covers topics like force, motion, friction, gravity, magnets, and science vocabulary. The included "Push or Pull Sort" activity reinforces understanding of these concepts. Additionally, the science experiment "Investigating Pushes and
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2nd - 3rd
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Discussion Starters for Math Problem Solving
BEST SELLER!! This product has 14 printable cards with question stems and prompts TEACHERS can ask during problem solving activities to promote critical thinking skills. By integrating these open-ended questions into your daily math instruction and routines, you can help students:• Make sense of mathematics• Learn and apply mathematical language and vocabulary• Develop a wide variety of flexible strategies for problem solving• Strengthen reasoning skills• Solve problems effectively and efficient
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K - 12th, Staff
OPINION WRITING - Quick Writes - Writing Templates for Grades 1-2
These QUICK WRITES are great exercises for primary children learning how to think through, share, and defend their own personal OPINIONS on a variety of topics, including sports, entertainment, food, animals, character traits, and more. Because the templates are OPEN-ENDED, they allow for any child to respond at his or her own developmental level. Three template formats are included in this set: one with picture promptsone inviting the child to drawone with multiple choicesThe quick writes wor
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1st - 2nd
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Core Competencies Self Assessment BC Curriculum
I have created a self assessment for each of the Core Competencies of the new BC curriculum. They are written in language that K-2 students will understand.
Since using these assessments and going to a few workshops, I have made some changes. The first six pages are the original self assessments. The following six pages are the same, although instead of a sad face for "Not Yet" there is now a neutral face with a question mark above it. I found that my students didn't want to colour in a sa
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K - 5th
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Student Self Evaluation for Parent Teacher Conferences
This EDITABLE student self-evaluation is an ideal tool for allowing students to reflect on their organization, social skills, work habits, and responsibility in the classroom. This student evaluation is a great tool for guiding parent-teacher conferences, marking goal progress throughout the year, and receiving feedback from students.It covers the following areas: OrganizationSocialWork HabitsResponsibilityDue to the nature of copyright requirements with fonts, the categories are not editable.
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2nd - 6th
BC Core Competencies - Activities & Self-Assessment (K-7)
This package has OODLES of UPDATES as of Feb 2020! If you own it, please download it again to get all the extra goodies :-). It has been revised, expanded, improved, and refined - over 175 extra pages added, quadrupling the size! This package is aligned with the competencies of the new BC Curriculum.Core Competencies:★ Communication★ Thinking★ Personal and SocialSub-competencies:★ Communicating ★ Collaborating★ Creative Thinking★ Critical & Reflective Thinking★ Personal Awareness and Res
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K - 7th
Student Self Reflection & Evaluation | Conferences & Report Cards
This student self reflection resource is an excellent way for your students to evaluate their learning to share during student led and parent teacher conferences. It can be used for any reporting period to converse with your students about their successes and ways in which they can improve. The activity can be used for in person instruction as well as assigned digitally to share in an online portfolio.May be used as a printable resource or assigned on Google Classroom with your students.Resourc
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4th - 8th
What's Missing Tacts Labels Autism ABA Therapy ABLLS-R G28
What's Missing?! This resource is designed to provide you with materials to assist in teaching your students to identify a missing item in a picture, such as in the ABLLS-R G-28 (note: this resource only addresses missing items, not incorrect items). 36 -2”x 2” picture cards are included that depict a common item with something missing, as well as those same 36 pictures with the missing item included that you may use if desired for teaching/prompting.Recently updated to include all of the pictur
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PreK - 2nd
Also included in: What's Missing What's Wrong Bundle Autism ABA Therapy ABLLS-R G28
Dictionary Skills Context Clues STAAR prep TEK 6.2E Lesson 1
Do your students struggle with dictionary standards involving words with multiple meanings? This dictionary-based practice set allows students to practice using context clues and inferencing to decide which definition is being used within a passage. This is oftentimes seen on STAAR / state testing and is a difficult concept for students to master!This resource includes:✔️ 6 Short reading passages featuring 1-2 underlined vocabulary words✔️ 10 mock dictionary excerpts, showing multiple definition
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4th - 7th
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Stone Soup Folktale Handouts
I read the folktale "Stone Soup" aloud to my students, focusing on the fact that the soup made the entire town happy at the end. I asked questions to make sure that the students have understood the book and its message.This was my absolute favorite folktale when I was younger, and that is why I wanted to create a fun, bold handout to go along with my lesson on folktales.How I used handout 1: "Elements of a Folktale" The teacher should model how to use the Stone Soup graphic organizer. The studen
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K - 5th
Water Pollution Water Filter STEM
This environmental project challenges students to create a water filter to use with grey water to conserve water resources. The water filtration lab is a perfect Earth Day project. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate their filter. Students observe and collect data to write a report on findings. Leveled texts and writing prompts round out this jammed packed set! ☝ Click HERE to Save 25% on the Money Savings ALL STEM and STEAM BUNDLE! ☝ (
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
5-ESS3-1
, 3-5-ETS1-1
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
Indigenous People in the Past A Collaborative Research Project
Teach your students in this twist on the jigsaw method about how the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada connect to the land as part of their belief system historically. Students will research the ways of life in the past and consider how they have changed over time.This engaging research project includes:a full lesson to help your students understand how geographical location impacts cultures both in the past and present.a Google Slides version so most of the project can be done di
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Alberta Social Studies Bundle Grade 4
Roaring 20s: Primary Sources, Close Reads, Analyzing Political Cartoons
Students will read about the people and changes in popular culture during the 1920s while practicing their close reads and analytical thinking skills. Brief summaries about the legends in art, literature, and science are a part of the reading featuring, Lindbergh, Earhart, Picasso, Hemingway, Einstein, and more! There are directions on how to analyze a political cartoon and opportunity to practice on a cartoon about Women's Suffrage. Students will make connections from our growth in popular cul
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Roaring 20s Bundle: 3 Products
Indigenous People in Canada Shelters and Dwellings | Project Based Learning
Engage students in learning about the lives of the Indigenous People in Canada through this exciting project about shelters and dwellings. Students are hired by a museum to design a new display in this project-based learning activity.Have your students use their creative, critical and historical thinking skills to demonstrate what they have learned about shelters used historically by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada. This project based learning activity includes:a complete lesson
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Alberta Social Studies Bundle Grade 4
Reading Project-based Learning and Enrichment Start Smart Print and Digital
These Reading project-based activities are a way to enrich your high-achieving students through independent work study, while you are able to focus on providing instruction and support to your on level and approaching level students. These high-level thinking projects incorporate reading and writing, and allow all students to stay actively working on the same standards as the instruction you are giving to the students who are still working on learning grade level skills.NEWLY UPDATED with studen
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K - 2nd
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2ND GRADE UNDERSTAND PARTITIONING SHAPES iREADY MATH UNIT 5 LESSON 29
2ND GRADE PARTITIONING SHAPES INTO HALVES, THIRDS, AND FOURTH iREADY MATH UNIT 5 LESSON 29 WORKSHEETS EXIT TICKET AND POSTERS i-READY MAFS TEK MGSE COMMON CORE PARTITIONING SHAPES INTO HALVES, THIRDS, AND FOURTHProduct Description This math pack is a great addition to any Math Curriculum for second grade. This product has practice for students who are learning to recognize and draw shapes by paying attention to the characteristics they have. There is practice with understanding partitioning
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1st - 3rd
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Division Error Analysis: Partial Quotients {CCSS 4.NBT.6}
Tired of finding the same mistakes in your students' partial quotient problems over, and over, and over, and...? Try these error analysis worksheets to help students identify the mistakes that are most commonly made.
Error analysis problems are a great way to check your students' understanding of a concept. Instead of just solving the same problems again and again on a worksheet, they have to use their critical thinking skills to determine where, if anywhere, the example student(s) went wrong.
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3rd - 5th
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Memorial Day Activity Memorial Day Reading & Writing Memorial Day Comprehension
Memorial Day Activities. This Memorial Day vs. Veterans Day Comparing and Contrasting Holidays is a great way to show the similarities and differences between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. This close-read resource mini-pack contains two pieces of informational text on both holidays, a compare-and-contrast activity, and an opportunity to ask and answer text-based questions. The responses make an excellent Memorial Day Bulletin Board display. Many Americans get Veterans Day and Memorial Day confu
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2nd - 3rd
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Comparing Fractions Word Problems - Mixed {4.NF.A.2}
I don’t know about you, but my students are NOT all on the same page when it comes to fractions. I have often struggled to find word problems involving comparing fractions that match my need for many different levels.This packet of 30 comparing fractions word problems is set up for easy differentiation. Just print and go!
What you get:
Sheet A: Common denominators ONLY (5 questions)
Sheet B: Common numerators ONLY(5 questions)
Sheets C and D: Mix of common denominators and common numerators (1
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3rd - 4th
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