Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

Provides an ... effective tool for implementing analysis skills ... necessary for success in all academic disciplines.

**This is the chapter slice "Keys to Inferences" from the full lesson plan "Critical Thinking"** With Critical Thinking, Students will gain the ability to not only understand what they have read, but how to build upon that knowledge independently by examining such skills as independent thinking, organization, asking questions, and problem-solving. Definitions of important terms and many opportunities to practice the skills being taught make our resource user-friendly and easy to understand. In addition, the objectives used in this book are structured using Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning to ensure educational appropriateness. You will be able to teach students the basic skills they will need to become critical thinkers. What they will learn from our resource will be just the beginning of a critical thinking journey that will continue through college and into adulthood. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

**This is the chapter slice "Keys to Problem Solving (Part One)" from the full lesson plan "Critical Thinking"** With Critical Thinking, Students will gain the ability to not only understand what they have read, but how to build upon that knowledge independently by examining such skills as independent thinking, organization, asking questions, and problem-solving. Definitions of important terms and many opportunities to practice the skills being taught make our resource user-friendly and easy to understand. In addition, the objectives used in this book are structured using Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning to ensure educational appropriateness. You will be able to teach students the basic skills they will need to become critical thinkers. What they will learn from our resource will be just the beginning of a critical thinking journey that will continue through college and into adulthood. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Using Dr. Fry's Instant Words and Dr. Rasinski's research, these books provide a powerful tool for building fluency. Each of the books in this series provides a clear direction on how to teach students to recognize words, read phrases with expressions, and ultimately improve comprehension. Each book includes: A fluency assessment rubric and a reference list of oral reading fluency strategies 20 four-page lessons on phrasing plus activities for practicing comprehension and fluency activities Audio CD with oral reading of the phrase list and reading selection from each lesson 96pp. plus Audio CD and Teacher CD

Engaging activities and reproducibles to develop kids' higher-level thinking skills.