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Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
Grades:
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Book Report Foldable Project: Pop-Up Picture Book with Editable Rubrics
Are you tired of the same extension projects for independent novel studies or literature circles? Then look no further! This 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Report comes with everything your students will need to create this foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need plain white paper, scissors, glue and coloring tools to create this engaging project. That’s all! Included in this resource:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your s
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3rd - 7th
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Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
Grades:
1st - 5th
The Westing Game Novel Study: Activities & Questions to Improve Comprehension
Support comprehension of The Westing Game (and have some fun!) A detective's journal helps kids keep track of tenants, the obituary, paired heirs, and clues. Additional activities and discussion questions foster understanding of this complex puzzle-piece mystery novel. These resources were created to address a specific need in my classroom. Although I taught a class of high ability students, some just didn't get the outcome of this book. When, however, they analyzed specific details and discusse
Grades:
4th - 6th
Jumbo Poster Size Graphic Organizer Collaboration and Group Discussion Mats
Need some help getting your group to record their discussions or stay on topic? More important, do you need a way to do that conveniently without a lot of effort? Yes, graphic organizers can be found anywhere. These poster size printouts save you the time of formatting and enlarging them for whole or small group use. As a teacher, my time is valuable, which is why I made these. These printable collaboration mats print across 6, 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper each. Once taped together, they make the p
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff, Not Grade Specific
Franny K Stein Frantastic Voyage comprehension / writing ideas
Are you looking for a fantastic chapter book for a read aloud or guided reading? Look no further because Franny K Stein Mad Scientist Frantastic Voyage will capture the attention of every child in your class including the boys!First you need the book Franny K Stein Mad Scientist Frantastic Voyage by Jim Benton. Vocabulary cards are provided for each chapter. Thought provoking questions are included for each chapter. The pages can be copied and made into a booklet or run off separately and gl
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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
Grades:
K - 4th
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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
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in: The Ultimate Text Talk Bundle
Solve the mystery case files | Problem solving | Group activity for preschool
This Secret Spy Detective mystery case file game is a fun and educational game that challenges students' reasoning skills and builds teamwork. As they work as a team to solve the case, players will develop their critical thinking skills, understand logical reasoning, increase memory recall and improve their reading comprehension. Each of the cases comes with materials for 10 case files, making this ideal for an extended 2 week lesson. Solve a new case every day, or solve them all at once!⭐️This
Grades:
PreK - K
Invisible by Gonzalez Graphic Novel Study comprehension, composition, activities
Complete with the option for Google Slides™ and pdf format. This product provides resources for studying the graphic novel INVISIBLE by Christina Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. The resource is great for comprehension guidance, classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. This book is a timely work of fiction that is thought-provoking, humorous, serious, hopeful, assuring, and committed to
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5th - 8th
Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity
This Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity will be a great resource when implementing literature circles in your classroom. A literature circle is a small group instructional approach with structure, high expectations, and rigor. ****This file comes with editable products! (Need PowerPoint to edit)**** Depth and Complexity will help your students dig deeper in their learning and think in more complex ways. This product encompasses the 11 elements of Depth and Complexity that were
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3rd - 8th
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The Wild Robot Questions - The Wild Robot Novel Study Discussion Questions
⭐ Make sure to take a sneak peek at this amazing resource ⭐Do you love the novel, The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, but need low-prep activities to integrate into a fun novel unit? The Wild Robot Discussion Questions for Google Slides are a perfect way for students to synthesize information as they read each chapter in the novel. This resource includes a printable and digital option and is designed so that you can simply download, print, and go! This is ideal for teachers wanting a high-quality a
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3rd - 5th
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New Kid Jerry Craft Graphic Novel Study PDF and Digital Resource
Complete with the option for Google Slides™ and pdf format. This product includes 110+ cards to use as resources for studying the graphic novel, New Kid by Jerry Craft. The resource is great for comprehension guidance, classroom discussion, literature circles, book clubs, novel studies, task cards, book challenges, reflection journals, and/or student writing prompts. This book is a timely work of fiction that is thought-provoking, humorous, serious, hopeful, assuring, and committed to engaging
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Grades:
4th - 8th
George by Alex Gino Novel Study / Key (Author endorsed!)
"George," a novel by Alex Gino, tells the story of Melissa, whose classmates and family know her by the name of George. The message "Be Who You Are" comes across as a strong central theme in this excellent novel about a transgender youth who wants to be Charlotte in the school play, a monumental task for a girl who everyone thinks is a boy. This novel study was created with input and suggestions from the author of the novel - Alex Gino!
This detailed novel study includes a text-dependent qu
Grades:
4th - 6th
READING RESPONSE JOURNAL: Questions, Prompts, Rubrics, For Any Novel | Printable
This print-'n-go Reading Response Journal covers 24 reading skills and can be used with any book! Perfect for novel studies, literature circles, independent reading novels, or responding to read-alouds. Keep students engaged, hold them accountable, and cover more than 20 reading, literature, and writing standards with this reading journal that can be used over and over again!Use for at-home learning, asynchronous learning, or independent, student-directed learning.Questions, journal prompts, gra
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: READING RESPONSE JOURNAL: For Any Novel, Printable & Digital 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
"The Cow Tripped Over the Moon" reading comprehension activities
“The Cow Tripped Over the Moon” by Tony Wilson and illustrated by Laura Wood was an Honours winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) 2016 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) Honours Award. It was also the focus picture book for National Simultaneous Storytime across Australia, on 24 May 2017.This resource includes reading comprehension activities to support this picture book title.Please note that this is an Australian picture book, so this resource is in Australian spelling on
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Literature Circles Roles | Easel Activity Distance Learning
Printable and TpT digital activities for kids to use for literature circle roles. These literature circle activities provide reading jobs for elementary students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Great to use with novel studies!This resource has a Easel Activity for distance learning already created for students to input their responses in answer boxes and to use other tools to draw and highlight. It is an Interactive layer over the original pdf. Click here to learn more about TpT’s digital act
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Esperanza Rising Novel Study with STAAR Stemmed Questions
This novel study includes:Comprehension Questions for each chapterSTAAR Stemmed questions for each chapterVocabulary activities for each chapterCharacter traits and character analysis throughout the storyAdditional activities-compare and contrast, map activity, visualize activityWord wall wordsAnswer keysI've created many products that already have STAAR stemmed questions with them! Check these out!Read aloud and mentor texts:Sweet Clara and the Freedom QuiltThrough My EyesThe Rough Faced GirlDr
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Discussion Questions & Creative Writing Prompts I Gordon Korman's Linked
Save time and energy with these discussion questions for Gordon Korman's middle-grade novel Linked. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom. Also included are creative writing prompts in a variety of styles and scoring rubrics for each.Included in this product:- 100+ open-ended discussion questions, sorted by chapter- These discussion questions reorganized onto printable handouts, suitable for comprehension che
Grades:
5th - 7th
Number the Stars Leveled Reading Comprehension Discussion Questions
This packet contains leveled discussion questions for each section of the novel, Number the Stars. The sections include:
-Chapters 1-2
-Chapters 3-4
-Chapters 5-6
-Chapters 7-8
-Chapters 9-10
-Chapters 11-12
-Chapters 13-15
-Chapters 16-Afterword
For each section, there are six discussion questions that are aligned with the six levels of Bloom's taxonomy:
-Remembering
-Understanding
-Applying
-Analyzing
-Evaluating
-Creating
If you are doing Literature Circles for the novel, Number the Star
Grades:
5th - 8th
Discussion Questions & Creative Writing Prompts for Squint I Print & Digital
Save time and energy with these discussion questions for Chad Morris' middle-grade novel Squint. The discussion questions are purposely open-ended and subject to opinion to encourage debate and discussion in your classroom. Also included are creative writing prompts and scoring rubrics.Included in this product:- 110+ open-ended discussion questions, sorted by chapter- These discussion questions reorganized onto printable handouts, suitable for comprehension checks, homework, mini-essays, or prep
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: ELA Bundle for Chad Morris' Squint I Print & Digital Versions
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy Brochure BUNDLE {Fiction + Nonfiction}
This brochure bundle includes the six revised steps in Bloom's Taxonomy:- Remembering- Understanding- Applying- Analyzing- Evaluating- CreatingThe brochures include the six revised steps in Bloom's Taxonomy in individual brochures to help students reflect on their FICTION and NONFICTION reading. These brochures are aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Literature & Informational Text.Each brochure includes five activities to help students build upon that particular level of thinking
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Aaron Blabey - "Thelma the Unicorn" HOT reading resources
34 pages of higher order thinking reading comprehension resources for the picture book "Thelma the Unicorn" by Aaron Blabey.The reading comprehension activities include: making connections, character traits, word work, the 4H reading strategy, a fun rhyming words game featuring Thelma and Otis, idioms and so much more!Making connections – text-to-text; text-to-self; text-to-worldText-to-self connections - Uniquely Me!Character traits – with text evidence and the STEAL strategy Y chart: fameWord
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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