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In order to promote authentic learning expected from 21st Century Learning and the Common Core, Essential Questions must be the driving force. Essential Questions hold true to frameworks; according to Grant Wiggins, they are “broad in scope and timeless by nature. They are perpetually arguable.” Essential Questions direct students to intellectual endeavors of inquiry “they point to the big ideas of the subject and to the technological frontiers of technical knowledge they are historically important and very much “alive” in the field.”
Included in this document:
• Essential Questions for different content areas (ELA, Science, Social Studies)
• Essential Questions for more than 50 trade books
• Essential Questions aligned to trade book themes
• Trade books aligned to corresponding Lexiles
When you are developing units of study, embed our essential question samples to provoke deep thought, lively discussions and sustained inquiry. Essential Questions connect to the Common Core because they can help develop new understanding, requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.
(Utilize our Essential Question Rubric and Teacher Checklist if you decide to create your own Essential Questions)
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Included in this document:
• Essential Questions for different content areas (ELA, Science, Social Studies)
• Essential Questions for more than 50 trade books
• Essential Questions aligned to trade book themes
• Trade books aligned to corresponding Lexiles
When you are developing units of study, embed our essential question samples to provoke deep thought, lively discussions and sustained inquiry. Essential Questions connect to the Common Core because they can help develop new understanding, requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.
(Utilize our Essential Question Rubric and Teacher Checklist if you decide to create your own Essential Questions)
From our desk to yours
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Lifelong tool
Description
In order to promote authentic learning expected from 21st Century Learning and the Common Core, Essential Questions must be the driving force. Essential Questions hold true to frameworks; according to Grant Wiggins, they are “broad in scope and timeless by nature. They are perpetually arguable.” Essential Questions direct students to intellectual endeavors of inquiry “they point to the big ideas of the subject and to the technological frontiers of technical knowledge they are historically important and very much “alive” in the field.”
Included in this document:
• Essential Questions for different content areas (ELA, Science, Social Studies)
• Essential Questions for more than 50 trade books
• Essential Questions aligned to trade book themes
• Trade books aligned to corresponding Lexiles
When you are developing units of study, embed our essential question samples to provoke deep thought, lively discussions and sustained inquiry. Essential Questions connect to the Common Core because they can help develop new understanding, requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.
(Utilize our Essential Question Rubric and Teacher Checklist if you decide to create your own Essential Questions)
From our desk to yours
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Included in this document:
• Essential Questions for different content areas (ELA, Science, Social Studies)
• Essential Questions for more than 50 trade books
• Essential Questions aligned to trade book themes
• Trade books aligned to corresponding Lexiles
When you are developing units of study, embed our essential question samples to provoke deep thought, lively discussions and sustained inquiry. Essential Questions connect to the Common Core because they can help develop new understanding, requires students to consider alternatives, weigh evidence, support their ideas, and justify their answers.
(Utilize our Essential Question Rubric and Teacher Checklist if you decide to create your own Essential Questions)
From our desk to yours
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Report this resource to TPT
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THis helped me guide teachers to utilize more essential questions by understanding what was requested of them.
Great resource, thank you.
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In the description it is stated how may trade books there are questions for, but you were vague in the content area. I was expecting more in the content area for the price you are charging. That is what I was looking for and needed.
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Really? I wish I had read the comments. This is not at all what I was expecting.
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I was hoping for more from this file.
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