Sharpen fifth graders' critical-thinking skills with these brain-teasing activities. Parents, students, and teachers will love these fun challenges, puzzles, and logical thinking pages. They're a great way to practice higher-order thinking skills.

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.

**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.

Immerse your fourth graders in research-based practice aimed to develop fluency. Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases<\i> offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery. A fluency rubric and reference list of oral reading strategies are included to support learning success. Based on Dr. Timothy’s expert fluency research and Dr. Edward Fry’s Instant Words<\i>, this resource is aligned with college and career readiness standards and provides an important reading foundation. An Audio CD with oral readings of phrases and reading selections is included.

50 training activities and self-development exercises to prepare your personnel for international assignments, and develop better understanding of cross-cultural communication. Compiled by a team of experts from around the world, these ready-to-use activities have been tested and refined for a wide variety of international businesses and organizations. They are ideal for both preparing people to work, market, negotiate, and otherwise do business with people in Asia, Latin America, and Europe and to prepare foreign nationals for working in the U.S.