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Marzano's higher level thinking clouds are a great tool to use during guided reading time! Great for those students who need to think deeper and ...
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Depth and Complexity
These tasks cards have been specifically written with careful consideration to how Depth and Complexity uniquely lends itse...
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Students with language difficulties struggle to make inferences and draw conclusions when faced with text in the classroom and on tests.
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These free reading comprehension cards help students think critically and better understand stories and texts they read. Using the cards, studen...
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Follow up to Making Inferences Role Play Activity Freebie :)
Includes 10 more role play scenarios
Students with language difficulties (and even...
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Depth and Complexity
You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literat...
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These are the new Blooms Taxonomy strands. I currently use them in my classroom during guided reading. I cut each one out and placed on a Popsicl...
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I created this activity to be laminated and re-used as either a quick assessment tool or center activity. I use velcro religiously and by adding ...
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These questions were created to be used for literature circles. The story they discuss can be any story from a one page passage to a chapter book...
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Depth and Complexity
These bookmarks are a simple and easy way to get your students to think critically, and they can be used with fiction liter...
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Dear Mr. Blueberry Open-Ended Creative/Letter Writing Liturature
Price: 42 pages X .5 = $2.10
Unit includes:
1. Goals
2. Unit directions
3. Ma...
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These tiered question stem cards were created using Bloom's Taxonomy. Students will be challenged to create their own questions based on their c...
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Reading Response Journal
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I have worked on developing and modifying a “Reading Response Journal†over the past 15 years b...
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This set of ten role cards is designed for guided reading reciprocal teaching groups. This resource draws on the reciprocal teaching, student-gen...
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Reciprocal Teaching is a research based instructional strategy to improve students' reading comprehension skills. This set includes a reference ...
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Philosophy Questions Printable Kit : Suitable for Kindergarten to Fifth Grade
These printable Philosophy Question Cards will provide teachers wit...
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The twelve characterization discussion question cards promote higher order thinking in a very FUN way! These cards are influenced by Bloom's Taxo...
This is a teacher made test for the book "Sophie Simon Solves Them All" by Lisa Graff and Jason Beene. The test contains 20 higher-order thinking...
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Graphic organizers are such wonderful tools to help students organize their thinking, develop and practice higher level thinking skills, and prov...
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Collaborative Strategic Reading is a research based instructional strategy to improve students' reading comprehension skills. This set includes ...
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Character Bubbles will have your students thinking critically about what characters think and say! These response sheets will challenge your kidd...
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Bookmarks with Comprehension Strategies: I like to give each student a bookmark for their own book. (These are very helpful during literature cir...
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Here is a season sort cut and past activity.
You can use as an individual activity or as reinforcement in a station.
It has all four seasons, som...
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This book study set has critical thinking comprehension questions and several activities to complete.
1. cootie catcher
2. scenarios
3. verbs fro...
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These questions can be put onto a classroom blog OR they can be typed up and used for a novel study, guided reading group, or literature circle. ...
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This Chapter Chart Review worksheet is used for students while they are reading a chapter book. As they finish a chapter in their book, they writ...
First day of School Activity! Powerpoint instructions for students to create an Extended Name Tag. Once tags have been created, small groups can ...
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The following discussion cards can be printed, laminated, and used during:
• Literature circles
• Book clubs
• Guided reading discussions
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This is a fabulous literature unit on the folktale The Mitten. It focuses on two versions of the story - Jan Brett's and Alvin Tresselt's. Ma...
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“The Giver†by Lois Lowry: Final Project
Common Core Aligned
My 8th grade students have always loved reading “The Giver†by Lois Lowry. ...
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This is a guide to a close reading of The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. It's a wonderful book written from the point of view of Ivan,...
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QAR is a model for comprehension instruction that teaches students that the answers they need are related to the type of questions they are asked...
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If you do literature circles or book studies with your students, then you'll be interested in this lit guide I created for the book How to Steal ...
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This is a 25-page packet on Literature Circles to be used in the Intermediate or Middle School classrooms. It is a comprehensive packet with post...
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This set of questions asks for critical thinking regarding the short story, "On the Rainy River" by Tim O'Brien. The set of questions asks stude...
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Use this 3, 2, 1 review sheet at the end of a chapter book. It can be changed to fit your needs and used for a class read aloud or at the end of ...
This resource can be used to reinforce text connections when reading literature independently. The different connections are Text to Self, Text t...
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Complete a book study or Literature Circle report with these exciting pop-up reports! Easy to make, these customized and
flexible projects will...
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Use these questions before and after reading any stories with students to increase comprehension of text.
The reading thinking stem encourages students to think critically about their reading. I have my students write at least one a week. Their improv...
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Titles representing the five wars allow literature circles to be formed for a study of each war followed by a jigsaw grouping where one student f...
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You understand the 10% problem: archaic words and all those dispiriting footnotes. My uniquely crafted translation is the answer to this dilemma....
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Working in groups of 4, students are each given a different job. Then students are asked to read a text, and complete their job. Students then ...
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These pages reveal the lyrics of Middleton's Hecate songs in proper context with the dialogue which he added to "Macbeth" several years after its...
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Students should be taught to operate with a set of open-minded values so they will start
*Thinking for themselves, as compared to accepting unqu...
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24 thought cards to prompt as sentence starters for use during your sharing circle or circle time.
Use them in small groups, or choose a few stu...
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Elizabeth and Larry By Marilyn Sadler, Illustrated by Roger Bollen
Price: 48 pages X .10 = $4.80
Literature Unit
Accelerated Reading Level 1.0...
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Literature circles run more smoothly with these seven response sheets, each naming and describing a different role in the circle.
Room for r...
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This discussion guide assists students in participating in meaningful and directed group discussions about poetry. The open-ended questions work...
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This packet contains leveled discussion questions for each section of the novel, Number the Stars. The sections include:
-Chapters 1-2
-Chapters ...
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