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Critical thinking Common Core SL.2.1 resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
Grades:
K - 6th
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
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
STEM Challenges & Activities for the Year STEAM Team Building Summer No Prep
Looking to use STEM Challenges and activities in your elementary classroom? These hands on simple STEAM activities are low prep and use common classroom materials. These STEM activities are both digital and printable! There are STEM challenges and activities for the entire year for you to use - 48 challenges! You will find just what you need for Back to School, Team Building, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer STEM fun! This STEM Bundle includes STEM challenges and STEM activities for the entire ye
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K - 5th
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Food Chains Sorting Activity Game about Producers, Consumers, Decomposer CCSS
A fun sorting activity for students to practice, reinforce, and show what they have learned about Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers in a food chain! Great way to assess students!
Sorting Cards were created with ELL students and higher level thinking in mind. All pictures include a label. Descriptions cards make students think about what it truly means to be classified as a producer, consumer, and decomposer. Question Cards help students think about each sorting card they pick up.
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2nd - 5th
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Genius Hour Passion Projects For Elementary Students
This Genius Hour project-based learning pack will help you and your students begin passion projects with ease! This set will help your students develop a growth mindset as they go through a series of self-awareness activities to create a project that interests them all while learning important skills as they go along. Step-by-step students are taken through the process as they plan and prepare their passion projects or project-based learning projects.This is a great end-of-the-year way for stude
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Beach Day Activities With Bubble Day & End of the Year Activities Beach Themed
This week-long Beach Themed Week for 1st and 2nd graders offers fun end-of-year activities, memory book creation, math review, science, and social studies exploration. Keep kids engaged and allow teachers to work at school with this exciting end-of-year adventure!Instead of feeling like pulling your hair out the last week of school, enjoy your students AND get things done with this end-of-the-year beach/surf-themed unit. The beach unit has activities for reading, writing, math, science, and soc
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: End-of-the-Year Activities Beach Theme Beach Days Activities Bundle
How to Build Meaningful Student-Led Discussion Pack
Do you want your students to lead their own meaningful discussion as they engage in critical thinking without you orchestrating the process? Like other academic skills, student-led discussion needs to be taught explicitly. This pack is designed to give you the tools you need as the teacher to do just that! Here's what is included in this pack:--16 Meaningful Discussion Stems Posters (3 different sizes)--How to Be a Respectful Listener and Speaker Posters--Student-Led Discussion Rubrics and Recor
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1st - 5th
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Morning Meeting Sharing Questions- 200 Fun Discussion Questions
Do you participate in morning meetings? Do you ever get to the sharing time and find yourself asking the same types of questions or simply having trouble thinking of new questions to promote a safe and fun classroom community? This download contains 180 unique morning meeting sharing questions--one for each day of the school year. It is a great addition to any morning meeting space. You can choose to print out the master copy of the questions if you have a way of organizing the questions on your
Grades:
K - 5th
Also included in: Morning Meeting BUNDLE: Greetings, Sharing Questions, and Activities
End of the Year Activities: Last Day of School Theme Weeks End of Year 2nd Grade
Do you dread the end-of-the-year hustle and bustle? There is just so much to do and so little time! Not anymore, my friend. Get ready for a classroom transformation! End-of-the-year activities have never been more engaging, time-producing, and just plain AWESOME than with these End of the Year-Themed Weeks! There is even an all about me worksheet included in each theme week. Keep teaching until the end WHILE giving yourself TIME to get everything done at SCHOOL. Also perfect for summer review.*
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1st - 2nd
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Academic Conversation Placemats
Get your students talking about text! Building students’ knowledge of academic language is essential for academic success. These Academic Conversation Placemats use sentence frames to encourage students to speak in complete sentences with varying degrees of grammatical complexity. These placemats were created to be used with both fiction and non-fiction text. They promote discussion around text, which research shows increases reading comprehension. Each placemat begins with having students prepa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Accountable Talk Stems: Posters, Bookmarks, Desk Plates, Bulletin Board
These Accountable Talk bulletin board posters, bookmarks, desk plates (desktags), and notebook inserts were made to help students learn to communicate with others in an engaging, yet respectful and meaningful way. Use the posters to help when creating anchor charts; use the talking stems on student reference cards to scaffold in whole group, small group, or partner discussions and activities; students end up totally taking the reigns once they've got this down and they love it!Click here to view
Grades:
3rd - 10th
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
Morning Meeting Activities Conversation Starters Daily Writing Prompts Advice
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? ADVICE OF THE DAY MORNING MEETING ACTIVITY provides you with a consistent morning routine that will build a strong classroom community in a fun and engaging way! You will get 180 days worth of thought-provoking conversation starters, offering your students advice they can use in every part of their world,in both a printable and projectable version, with a matching student writing journal. This resource is not on
Grades:
1st - 4th
Design a Playground Solution - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How can we use engineering to solve a problem on the playground?Description:In this project, students use the Design Thinking Process to solve a problem they identify themselves on the playground. Each stage of the Design Thinking Process is broken down to have students work through a problem in groups, come up with solutions, prototype, get feedback and iterate. Finally they will produce an actual solution to a playground problem and exhibit this to other students.Communication
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K - 2nd
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Reading Comprehension question stems | guided reading | Reading Discussion Cards
These reading comprehension discussion cards , question stems are perfect for guided reading, buddy reading, book talks, tutoring or even literature circles. These reading comprehension question starters include reading questions for either fiction or nonfiction texts. You will support reading independence and engagement with several question starters and prompts to guide discussions. These are great to leave with a sub, give to a student teacher or even parent helper to guide them if they are
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K - 5th, Staff
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Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
Magic Tree House #2 Knight at Dawn Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
I created this packet of reading response comprehension questions to use with my “independent” readers who are ready to dig deeper into what they are reading. This Magic Tree House The Knight at Dawn is a 2.9 reading level.
Students will: write responses to text dependent questions about key details in the text, apply their knowledge to new situations, make inferences and draw conclusions, participate in collaborative co
Grades:
K - 3rd
*Bundle* thinkLaw Nursery Rhyme Four Lesson Bundle
What if the same critical thinking strategies taught in law school could be used with students in K-2? thinkLaw uses law school exercises with our youngest students using folk tales, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes because there are some shady characters in children's literature,This bundle includes FOUR thinkLaw Early Elementary LessonsThree Blind MIce: Analysis from Multiple PerspectivesLittle Boy Blue:Settlement and Negotiation StrategyJack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Tough DecisionsA Tis
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K - 2nd
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Chicken Little: The Original Fake News Story
We read students traditional stories and folktales but do we every stop to challenge them to really THINK about what they're reading and hearing?Chicken Little is THE original fake news story. The birds never stop to think about what they're being told. They never ask any questions. They just accept the statement that the sky is falling is fact.In Chicken Little: Making and Evaluating Difficult Decisions students will:Scrutinize an imaginary story that a classmate tells them. Is it true? Ho
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K - 2nd
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Tuesday by David Wiesner Socratic Seminar Plan + Extras
Need a way to creatively reach your student's Speaking and Listening standards? Want to assess ALL students based on their thoughts and not what they are able to write down? Socratic Seminar is an amazing way to assess student understanding and find holes in it, too. In addition, students who have difficulty with writing, but are able to verbalize their thinking will find an even playing field.
This seminar on David Wiesner's book, Tuesday, is meant for younger students. I have used it as earl
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K - 4th
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Introduction to Genres PRINTABLE-Escape Room Game
⭐ This PRINTABLE version of Introduction to Genres Escape, requires no technology and includes an additional entry code and final lock! ⭐ This fully printable Genre escape may be set up in stations, or you may make a packet for each group. There is a similar DIGITAL version you can find here.⭐This game is a perfect way to introduce students to the different genres of books and will get them working together in a relaxing and fun environment. ⭐ Here's what's inside:ENTRY CODE:Read the introducti
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2nd - 5th
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Question of the Day AND Would You Rather Cards (Total of 180 cards!)
Are you struggling with what to do with 5 minutes of down time? Are your students struggling with waiting in line? Do you need ideas to get your students thinking in the morning? The Question of Day and Would You Rather Cards can help you with just that! There are many different ways to use them:✅ introduce them at the beginning of the day and have the students answer before lunch or before a break ✅ use them as you're waiting in line to leave or when there's those few minutes of down time
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PreK - 5th
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Jack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Difficult Decisions
What if the same critical thinking strategies taught in law school could be used with students in K-2? thinkLaw uses law school exercises with our youngest students using folk tales, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes.Jack and Jill: Making and Evaluating Difficult Decisions guides students through the process of analyzing the nursery rhyme and asking critical questions.It says that Jack fell down and broke his crown, but was he really hurt? The next line said he capered home. Caper means to dance
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K - 2nd
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Executive Functioning Game Based Lessons and Activities for Home or School
Wanna keep practicing those executive functioning skills you've been teaching? These game-based executive functioning learning activities are perfect for practicing and reinforcing skills like impulse control, working memory, and following instructions. This resource includes 8 game-based lesson plans you can easily use during morning meeting, SEL class, or for some structured fun during transition time or indoor recess. These activities can also be easily adapted to meet the needs of specific
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1st - 5th
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