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Critical thinking Common Core RI.1.4 resources
Comprehension and Metacognition, Reading is THINKING, Good Readers
Reading is THINKING! These reading comprehension strategies, lessons, and student handouts are perfect for students needing extra practice with metacognition skills and learning to REALLY READ. Students will learn the difference between "FAKE READING" and "REAL READING."Lessons are great for:RTI / InterventionsGuided Reading lessonsSmall group reading instructionWhole group mini-lessonsLiteracy stations / centersInteractive Reading JournalsIncluded in this READING IS THINKING download:Teaching
Grades:
1st - 4th
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Also included in: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE
Matilda Novel Unit
Are you looking for another fun Roald Dahl novel to read to your students that includes adventure, mystery, and magic? Then Matilda is the perfect book for you and your students. It is equivalent to a 5.2 reading level but can be used for lower grades as well with the teacher's assistance. This would be a great novel unit for the whole class, or for a reading group.This novel unit includes:-21 Comprehension Checks/Quizzes (1 for each chapter) with answer key-Text to Self Connection: Venn Diagra
Grades:
1st - 6th
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Also included in: Roald Dahl Novel Units {The Bundle of 4}
Comprehension Questions to Use with ANY TEXT
Tired of creating comprehension assessments each week? These Comprehension Questions may be used with ANY TEXT and are perfect for assessing guided reading! Thinking Questions is a tool designed for teachers to measure and assess their students’ reading progress. A built-in rubric is embedded on each one! Using this assessment resource in your classroom will provide you with information in the following areas:Comprehension skillsMetacognition strategiesGuided Reading strategiesVocabularyLiterac
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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Also included in: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension MEGA BUNDLE
Comparing Inherited Traits: BUTTERFLY OR MOTH? (Animal Classification)
Enrich your animal classification studies with BUTTERFLY OR MOTH?, an interactive book from my Comparing Inherited Traits series. Your students will love the cut-and-glue format and realistic, original illustrations; and you’ll love the NGSS/TEKS standards-based content, Venn assessment, and emphasis on critical thinking. OUTLINE OF TOPICS INCLUDED:What Is an Inherited Trait?Shared TraitsMetamorphosisLife Cycle: Larvae (smooth vs fuzzy)Life Cycle: Pupae (chrysalis vs cocoon)Antennae (clubbed vs
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
Also included in: COMPARING INHERITED TRAITS Activity Book Bundle
Reading Comprehension Cards Based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Comp. Quest Cards 2 are based on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Cards are color coordinated based on various levels of thinking. They are a great tool for teachers, teacher assistants and parents to engage children during a read aloud, and reading groups. I have used these cards as a third grade teacher, a resource room teacher and as a reading specialist.⭐ These are based on more recent changes from Anderson & Krathwohl (2001).➀ Light red: Remembering➁ Light orange: Understanding➂ Light yellow:
Grades:
K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Comparing Inherited Traits: FROG OR TOAD? (Animal Classification)
Enrich your animal classification studies with FROG OR TOAD?, an interactive book from my Comparing Inherited Traits series. Your students will love the cut-and-glue format and realistic, original illustrations; and you’ll love the NGSS/TEKS standards-based content, Venn assessment, and emphasis on critical thinking. OUTLINE OF TOPICS INCLUDED:What Is an Inherited Trait?Shared TraitsAmphibian MetamorphosisLife Cycle: Eggs (clusters vs chains)Body Covering (smooth skin vs bumpy skin)Locomotion (J
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
Also included in: COMPARING INHERITED TRAITS Activity Book Bundle
Literature Circles (Book Club) Graphic Organizers with Extensions!
Literature Circles are a fantastic way to incorporate a love of reading in students by encouraging independent learners with higher level conversations! Great for grades 1-8, these graphic organizers will last you all year! There are many jobs/roles to choose from and additional pages of similar roles to increase by ability throughout the year.
An wonderful addition to this set is EXTENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS! This is not "when you're finished do a worksheet or go on the computer"!!! This is cr
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Grades:
1st - 8th
Day of the Dead Activities Reading Passages Escape Room Crack the Code Bundle
This Day of the Dead bundle provides your students with fun, engaging, and educational Dia de los Muertos easy prep activities in the classroom. In this bundle, you will find an escape room game, a crack the code activity, and nine Day of the Dead-related reading passages, perfect for kindergartners to early 2nd grade students. Reasons why you need this bundle:These activities allow students to practice reading and working independently or with a team/partner.These are print and go / easy prep w
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1st - 3rd
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Comparing Inherited Traits: SPIDER OR INSECT? (Animal Classification)
Enrich your animal classification studies with SPIDER OR INSECT?, an interactive book from my Comparing Inherited Traits series. Your students will love the cut-and-glue format and realistic, original illustrations; and you’ll love the NGSS/TEKS standards-based content, Venn assessment, and emphasis on critical thinking. OUTLINE OF TOPICS INCLUDED:What Is an Inherited Trait?Shared TraitsLife CyclesBody Parts (two vs. three)Legs (eight vs six)Eyes (simple vs compound)Mouthparts (fangs vs probosci
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Grades:
K - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
Also included in: COMPARING INHERITED TRAITS Activity Book Bundle
Science & Nature Curriculum Bundle: all my units & mini-studies in one bundle!
Simply EVERY unit in my shop, in one discounted bundle!→ This collection includes environmental science-inspired complete units and study materials.→ It is perfect for homeschooling, nature camps, STEM camps, and earth/environmental science classrooms.→ All the materials feature my artwork and are based on my experience as an environmental scientist.*** What age/grade can use these materials?*** These materials were designed with universal design and mixed-age group classroom in mind! All units
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Grades:
Homeschool
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 1-LS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-LS4-3
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Comparing Inherited Traits: BAT OR BIRD? (Animal Classification)
Enrich your animal classification studies with BAT OR BIRD?, an interactive book from my Comparing Inherited Traits series. Your students will love the cut-and-glue format and realistic, original illustrations; and you’ll love the NGSS/TEKS standards-based content, Venn assessment, and emphasis on critical thinking. OUTLINE OF TOPICS INCLUDED:What Is an Inherited Trait?Shared TraitsBody Coverings (fur vs feathers)Life Cycles (viviparous vs oviparous)Parenting (producing milk vs finding food)Wing
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Grades:
K - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
Also included in: COMPARING INHERITED TRAITS Activity Book Bundle
Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1 - Set 1
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This exercise does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). [If you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box, CLICK HERE to access this series of ex
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Dinosaur Research - Dinosaurs and Birds Sorting Mats
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? Are Birds Modern Day Dinosaurs? What does the evidence say?You might be surprised to know what the evidence actually says about this important topic.Let your students and kids decide for themselves based on the evidence and learn right along with them.I designed this project with my son, who has Autism, in mind. He hates writing and has a hard time getting his ideas out on paper. When I started using sorting mat activities to assist with learning, it took the str
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Grades:
PreK - 9th
Also included in: Critical Thinking Activities - Dinosaurs, Birds, and Paleontology
Unit of Study: Science Detectives | Strange Weather | Moons and Tides
Students will use their detective skills to investigate strange weather phenomena and tides. They will learn that there are scientific explanations for events that may seem unexplainable and use experiments to find scientific explanations for these phenomenon.This unit of study was originally developed and implemented in a gifted and talented pull out program, however it can easily be used in a traditional classroom or as an independent research study.Each lesson plan follows a 6E model of teach
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Can You Find Me? Early Learning, Building Thinking Skills for Pre-Kindergarten
Award-winning 112-page printable PDF ebook for PreK starting your students on the road to critical thinking! This fun, colorful book of mind-building riddles introduces young minds to critical thinking and organized analysis. To solve the riddles, students practice: • Identifying Similarities and Differences • Forming/Following Sequences and Patterns • Classifying Objects and Groups • Identifying/Interpreting Analogies • Logic The riddles in this book develop thinking skill
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PreK
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COMPARING INHERITED TRAITS Activity Book Bundle
Enrich your animal classification studies with the Comparing Inherited Traits Book Bundle, a series of interactive books that compares the inherited traits of animal groups and species. Your students will love the cut-and-glue formatting and realistic, original illustrations; and you’ll love the NGSS/TEKS standards-based content, Venn assessments, and emphasis on critical thinking. The five books in this series compare and contrast the following animal groups/species:Bats (Mammals) vs BirdsButte
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, 3-LS4-2
, 3-LS3-1
, 1-LS3-1
BIOMES: NORTH POLE-SOUTH POLE ACTIVITY BOOK
Tap into critical thinking skills as students compare and contrast the polar regions with North Pole-South Pole. This 12-page book highlights the location, geography, explorers, indigenous people, animal and plant life, and natural resources of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles and also includes two review activities to boost retention. Polar Regions Vocabulary Words:Antarctic Circle, Antarctic Treaty, Arctic Circle, Arctic tern, circumpolar, Emperor penguin, Inuit, kelp forest, McMurdo Station,
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Grades:
K - 3rd
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NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 2-LS4-1
, K-LS1-1
Also included in: BIOMES: NORTH POLE-SOUTH POLE BUNDLE SET
Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1 Workbook Sets 1-10
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This is a workbook of exercises that does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). This bundle includes the entire set of 10 exercises and is offered at a discounted price. [If yo
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Jungle Animals Logic Line Up NO PREP common core aligned
Teaching critical and logical thinking skills by listening, collaborating and following directions.
An activity engaging students to line up cards according to verbal directions, using problem solving skills, and collaborative communications.
These activities can be done in whole group or as partners; even individually or as a small group setting. Answers are with the problems.
included: Large picture cards, -color and black and white, small picture cards, directions, problems, ccstandard
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K - 4th
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Dr. DooRiddles A1: Fun Associative Reasoning Early Learning Riddle Activities
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for Preschool through Grade 2 is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans, and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students. Perceiving relatio
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PreK - 2nd
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Dr. DooRiddles A2: Fun Associative Reasoning Riddle Activities for Grades PreK-2
This 48-page printable PDF ebook for early learners is packed full of brain-scratching riddles that develop students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations. These riddles also develop spelling, vocabulary, reading, critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. Everyone loves the mystery of a riddle and Dr. DooRiddles will bring laughter, groans,and challenges (perhaps for as much as a week or more per riddle) to you and your students.Perceiving relationships betwee
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PreK - 2nd
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Context Clues in Google: Multiple Meaning Words, Level 1, Bundle 1, Sets 1-4
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you use Google Classroom and need exercises in which your students can practice this? This is a bundle of exercises that does all of the above and is in the format of Google Forms (set up as quizzes for easier grading). This bundle includes Set 1 (my Free Download) and Sets 2, 3 and 4 and is offered at a discounted p
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Context Clues: Multiple Meaning Words Fillable PDF Level 1 Complete Workbook
Do your students need practice finding the meaning of a word in a text? Do you need exercises where students not only find the meaning but also explain why they get their answer? Do you have your students email their assignments to you or you use a drop-box? This workbook of exercises does all of the above and is in a fillable PDF format which enables you to assign this to students and have them return it to you in a fully digital format. This workbook contains the complete set of 10 resources c
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Ancient History: Ancient Egypt Hieroglyphics
This pdf will teach your students about Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics: what are they, how to read them, and even how to write something like an ancient Egyptian. You can use it in the classroom, assign as homework, or as a reading comprehension practice.Thank you for YOUR purchase and don't forget to follow me for discounts and freebies
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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