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Critical thinking Common Core RI.1.2 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
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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}
Story Retell Summarizing and Sequencing Elementary Print and Go
This Print and Go resource focuses on retelling a story, summarizing, main idea, details, sequencing, reading comprehension and context clues-all in one! Summarizing a paragraph can be a difficult concept for beginning readers and students who have difficulty with receptive and expressive language skills. Their comprehension of the story can be missing or mixed up. They may often have difficulty putting the story in order due to the inability to sequence. This 23 useable page (print and go)
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners Bundle
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
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
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
Bloom's Taxonomy Questions, Task Cards and Activities For Kids
Want an easy way to ask questions while teaching?Check out my:Bloom's Taxonomy Task Cards and Activities For Kids / Elementary School !Included are task cards for you to laminate, cut, and place on popsicle sticks or keep in a small container to have right at your finger tips to ask those higher level questions! In grades where the children can read they can also pick their own cards and have to answer the question.I have also included worksheets for you to use with many different lessons. They
Grades:
K - 5th
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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:
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K - 5th, Staff
Also included in: Reading Comprehension Bundle
Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners Bundle
Teaching the main idea, critical thinking skills, details, and summarizing paragraphs to young students? Need it aligned to Common Core? This is the bundle for you! You get 114 useable pages, and you save 20%! Included in this bundle;Critical Thinking Skills for Beginners FreebieCritical Thinking Skills for BeginnersSummarizing Paragraphs for Beginners Print and Go!Main Idea for Beginners
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K - 3rd
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Science Experiments - STEM Activities Volcano Experiment
Are you looking for easy preschool science experiments you can do with your Kindergarten, Grade One, and Grade Two students? With this Primary Years STEM activities resource, you will go beyond the typical preschool science volcano experiment to try something new. Students will love getting hands-on during the experimentation station you'll set up so they can independently wonder, ask questions, formulate answers, and experiment!There are 5 scripted and detailed lesson plans as well as instruc
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Grades:
K - 2nd
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
Matter Interaction STEM and STEAM
Studying matter properties? This matter project challenges students to create objects from the same set of pieces by taking them apart and putting together in a new way. Students show how solid matter changes. The engineering design process helps students investigate, plan, create, improve, and evaluate designs. Students observe and write a report on findings. A leveled text and writing prompts round out this jammed packed physical science set! Next Generation Science Standard Alignment: 2-PS1-3
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-PS1-3
Also included in: STEM Activities STEM Challenges
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
Black History Month Museum! Printable K-2 Reader | Black Leaders | PBL Lesson 1
Kickoff Black History Month by building background knowledge of historical Black leaders with this low-prep, printable elementary reader! Students will be transported to The Black History Month Museum to learn about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Barack Obama! After reading, students can complete the a cut & glue matching review activity with visuals as a great exit ticket! The fun doesn't stop there --- What if we learned MORE and made our own exhibit?This is an int
Grades:
K - 2nd
Capturing Change - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What patterns of change do we see in nature?Description:Through photography, students will identify a pattern in nature that changes over time. Students will describe the pattern and the science behind it by writing a photo story to be displayed in a community art exhibition. Changes such as plant and animal life cycles, seasons, and weather may be explored.What's Included with this Project:NextLesson Projects are extended lessons based in real life situations or simulations, c
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K - 2nd
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Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
Grades:
K - 2nd
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
Biography & Wax Museum - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:How have heroes made a difference in the lives of others?Description:In this project, students learn about heroes and focus specifically on Helen Keller. They then research people who have made a difference in the lives of others using picture books and create a presentation to act as this person in a Wax Museum presentation.Parents can be invited in to visit the Wax Museum to increase student accountability.What's Included with this Project:NextLesson Projects are extended less
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1st - 2nd
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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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Mark Rothko Art Lesson PreK-3rd Grade Art History
This lesson is an art history study of Mark Rothko which includes information about the artist and a detailed lesson on how to create an art project inspired by the painting "No. 7"The lesson is perfect for PreK through 3rd grade. Students will have the opportunity practice creating texture and layering. A fun lesson using integration of shapes. The lesson will invite the child to create a beautiful unique art piece based on the techniques used by Mr. Rothko. You can use this lesson in the foll
Grades:
K - 3rd
Also included in: Rothko Art 3 Lesson Bundle No. 7 No. 6 No. 1 PreK-4th Grade Common Core
Exploring Animal Communities - Projects & PBL
Driving Question:What is a community? How do inhabitants adapt and interact within a community?Description:In this inquiry based Project, students work together to define the word "community" and investigate one animal community and its inhabitants. Reading and writing informational text becomes purposeful as students share their findings with the class by creating an informational poster to present to the rest of the class about their animal community. What's Included with this Project:NextLess
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K - 2nd
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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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Frog and Toad Are Friends Literary Unit
Engage and challenge your students with this complete literary unit for Frog and Toad are Friends from Catch My Products. Inside you'll find:An introduction to the author. Higher level discussion questions Short writing assignment for each chapter.**Please follow me for notifications of sales and promotions. New products will be offered at 50% OFF for 24 hours. It pays to follow Catch My Products Click Here To Follow Me**This lesson is also available in ActivInspire Software for Promethean Board
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Also included in: Frog and Toad Activities
Pocket Chart Learning Goals for an Elementary Classroom Common Core Aligned
Printed Color-Coded LEARNING GOALS for Pocket Chart Display in an Elementary Classroom. Great for the new Teacher Evaluation Programs including Marzano, which focus on display and referral to the lesson goals and objectives. Blank Templates included for each subject for Personalization. Add you own specific goals. Laminate and use a wipe off marker or dry erase marker (test first).
Learning Goals included for a Primary Classroom across the curriculum. Included Subject Areas are:
*Math (Common
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K - 3rd
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Pirates Past Noon for PROMETHEAN Board
Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osbourne's Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. Grab your Promethean Board and challenge your students with higher level thinking fun.ATTENTIONMake sure you use ACTIVE SOFTWARE before downloading this product. If you do not, you may purchase an identical power point at:Pirates Past Noon Power Point***********************************************
Grades:
K - 2nd
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