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Elementary critical thinking professional documents
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
Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Depth and Complexity Ebook BUNDLE | Question Stems and Quick Guide
Get both Depth and Complexity Ebooks in one bundle at a great price! You'll navigate the Depth & Complexity framework with ease with these two ebooks that put the power of Depth and Complexity at your fingertips.You'll get the Question Stems E-book with a comprehensive list of terrific questions you can use right away to raise thinking levels in your classroom AND you'll get the Depth & Complexity Quick Guide that makes applying the framework in your classroom a breeze.Would you like to
Grades:
3rd - 12th, Staff
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Question Stems for Common Core Math Practices
This product features printable cards with discussion/reflection questions that teachers can ask to promote each of the CCSS math practices, plus prompts that tie all the math practices together! Looking for a version that students can use during their conversations? Check out my Partner Discussion Cards for Common Core Math Practices! You can place these cards in centers for students to help them ask (and answer) the math practice questions featured here in the question stems for teachers. By i
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Depth and Complexity Quick Guide Ebook | Learn the Depth and Complexity Icons
Do you love Depth and Complexity and need a quick guide to how to use it in class? Have you seen the Depth & Complexity icons and wondered how to use them? This Depth and Complexity Quick Guide E-book will be a time saver (and maybe even a lifesaver!!). You'll get a two-page, attractive spread for all eleven thinking prompts and one-page guides to all of the Content Imperatives.Depth & Complexity doesn't have to be overwhelming.Do any of these sound familiar?You love Depth & Complexi
Grades:
2nd - 12th, Staff
Also included in:Â Depth and Complexity Ebook BUNDLE | Question Stems and Quick Guide
Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grade 4)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in fourth grade. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in fourth grade. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
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Grades:
4th
Editable Thematic Unit Planning Template
This is an editable template pdf that allows teachers to plan for thematic units. It includes options for teaching a chosen topic for either 10 days or 10 weeks. This planner features various prompts to support teacher planning including key concepts to be taught, vocabulary, student outcomes and activity planners. There is space to record lists of books/websites needed during the unit as well as an assessment rubric and student evaluation.
This 18 page pdf includes everything you will nee
Grades:
K - 8th
FREE - Bloom's Question Cards - Bloom's Taxonomy
These question card FREEBIES are based upon the original Bloom's Taxonomy. Use them to promote higher-level thinking during lessons and after read-alouds. Color code them by copying them on different colors so they are easily differentiated. Adorable covers for each question type are included.Looking for newer Bloom's Taxonomy and other tools to encourage higher level, critical and complex thinking? Check out Digging Deeper - Learning Practices✨Click the GREEN STAR by my store name to follow and
Grades:
K - 12th
Literal and Inferential Comprehension Questions for ANY book! (Grade 5)
This product includes literal, inferential, and critical questions to use with any book for students in fifth grade. The questions focus on summarizing, making predictions, making connections, synthesizing, inferring, analyzing, and critiquing.
The questions included reflect expectations of students in fifth grade. Use the questions to help students dig deeper when reading and to propel them toward more difficult texts.
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Grades:
5th
Core Competency Planning Chart
This Core Competency Planning Chart will help you plan out how to teach the specific skills of each of the Core Competencies in the BC Curriculum.This layout gives checkboxes to plan which term to work on each specific skill of the Communicating, Thinking and Personal Social Core Competencies (with the changes made January 2021).Each one is broken down into its subcategories and specific skills. Each skill has been worded in a way that can be used as a comment on a report card or on an e-portfol
Grades:
K - 12th
Marzano Data Forms (Editable)
Fully editable in .pdf format. No Powerpoint required! Easily track and group your students on Marzano's Learning Scale.
This editable product has 37 pages of forms for:
,Individual Data
- Formative Assessments
- Summative Assessments
- Exit Tickets
- Self Assessments
Class Data
- Formative Assessments
- Summative Assessments
- Exit Tickets
- Grouping
All forms have spaces to add your own notes, standards, and lesson titles!
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Grades:
K - 12th
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Emotional Regulation Tools {Emotional Regulation Visuals & Strategies}
Included is an extensive list of strategies and fidgets with a description of how to perform the strategy with pictures for reference. The goal of my extensive list is to give you an idea of different strategies to use to help students gain the skills to regulate their systems and give them more control over their emotions and behaviors.There are 15 self regulation strategy visuals and descriptions. It includes an in depth list of a variety of distraction techniques to use when you student is i
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Also included in:Â Emotional Regulation Activities Bundle {Posters, Worksheets, Strategies}
Close and Critical Reading Strategies A Nationally Published Teacher Resource
My resource is nationally published located in the SBAC Teacher Resource Library, UCLA. A must have for all teachers when it comes to teaching reading strategies that deal with complex text. Excellent for all subject areas. My students thrive when working with various complex text after mastering these strategies. It also shows on their state test scores. I published this in 2013 and yes these strategies still work today! Support your students by giving them the tools that will help them break d
Grades:
K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Flexible Seating Infographic
Have you changed your classroom to be more flexible when it comes to seating options? You might have a few parents, colleagues, or administrators questioning the decision to change from the traditional classroom layout to a more open concept.
This infographic, which prints to 1/2-page portrait, is compiled from reputable sources and cites educational research behind the flexible seating movement in classrooms.
With this handy 1/2-page infographic, you now have an easy handout for Back-to-Schoo
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Third Teacher Handbook: Reggio-Emilia in the primary classroom
This 45 page handbook includes a summary of the Reggio-Emilia philosophy, with a focus on the the environment as the "Third Teacher". It is intended to be used as a tool to inform and inspire Reggio-inspired practitioners. It is geared at the primary classroom with links to the revised BC Curriculum. Specifically, it looks at how Reggio-inspired classrooms can promote the core competency of critial thinking. This handbook highlights the following environmental elements: space, authentic material
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Core Competencies - B.C. Curriculum
This product includes all the updated Core Competencies aligned with the B.C. Curriculum. It includes listed profiles and facet for each competency, and student reflection forms for each profile, some of which have been divided across multiple reflection sheets for easier use. It also includes a blank student reflection sheet for each competency for students who need more space to show their learning. Suggested use: have students highlight the competency they connect most with, and draw, write (
Grades:
K - 12th
Reading Question Stem Bookmarks for Educators (Bloom's Taxonomy based)
These bookmarks for educators are designed to help teachers improve their reading questioning techniques. Some questions we always know to ask, like Who/What/Where...but what about questions for deeper meaning? Those can be hard to think of on the spot, especially if a student is reading an independent book that you haven't read. These question stems can help!
Designed around Bloom's Taxonomy levels of comprehension, this bookmark template contains over 15 question stems for basic comprehension
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Grades:
K - 6th, Staff
3 Key Ideas for Parents about the Common Core: A Handout
I created this simple, parent-friendly handout to share with parents when explaining the Common Core at Back to School Night. I only had 25 minutes so I didn't want to spend time explaining the standards themselves, but the shifts in thinking behind the Common Core. I mean really, when you only a short time to get across a lot of important information, you must choose what you share wisely...and really, are they going to remember RFS.1.2.a (or whatever) or are they going to remember what you sh
Grades:
K - 8th, Higher Education
Depth of Knowledge - Verbs Guide
Depth of Knowledge - Verbs Guide
Have you ever needed to know the Depth of Knowledge level to a question on a test? Or wondered the Depth of Knowledge level of questions that you are asking during guided reading groups? This quick reference verbs guide will let you know the DOK level 1-4 of the question verbs that are used in common assessment questions and questions that you generate yourself. There are 43 different DOK verb cards and many of the cards have multiple verbs listed on them s
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Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Multiple Intelligence Characteristics, Skills, Careers Posters
Multiple Intelligence contains eight colorful posters that address the eight multiple intelligences. These posters can be shown on the Smart-board, posted on bulletin boards or printed for student use. Each poster highlights the characteristics, skills, and career options for each intelligence.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Teacher Binder- Teacher Evaluation based on OTES- Common Core-Ohio Teachers
Hi Teachers,
The OTES Binder (Ohio Teacher Evaluation System)/ Teacher Binder is a helpful tool to help you stay organized throughout the year. This 250 page binder will help you gather student assessments, data, sample work, and lessons to demonstrate a skilled domain or accomplished domain. This binder will help you organize data, student work samples, pre-assessments, learning targets, formative assessments, and student growth.
As the year progresses, I may need to add or change information
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
Increasing Rigor with Student Discourse in Lehman's Terms
This product breaks apart student discourse into three main categories - preparing for powerful talk, students sharing their own ideas and students building on the ideas of others.I have named several talk moves appropriate for each category, defined them, explained the teacher language used for implementation as well as the student language used once implemented. Mastering the talk moves will increase the rigor in your classes’ student discourse.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
3rd Grade MATH Standards Breakdown (Common Core)
Includes all Common Core Math StandardsBreakdown Includes:- Vocabulary- Student Learning Targets- Question Stems- Vertical Alignment 2nd-3rd-4th
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â 3rd Grade (ELA & MATH) Standards Breakdown Common Core
Digital Wellness and Citizenship Scope and Sequence K-8
This is a scope and sequence covering digital wellness, digital citizenship, privacy and security, AI and media literacy for grades K-8. It has question prompts for each area and grade level, as well as links to downloadable printouts and slides. This is a resource rich product, using all of my research and experience in the area. You will get a PDF of the Scope and Sequence, but you will also get the direct link to the entire live Scope and Sequence (which will be found on the first page of the
Grades:
K - 8th
Ontario FDK Report Card Comments Self-Regulation & Well Being
FDK Report Card Comments for Self-Regulation and Well Being. 15 Comments in total.
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