81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities

81 Fresh & Fun Critical-thinking Activities
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780590375269

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.

Making Thinking Visible

Making Thinking Visible
Author: Ron Ritchhart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 047091551X

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 3: Engaging Lessons to Improve Comprehension

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 3: Engaging Lessons to Improve Comprehension
Author: Oczkus, Lori
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1618137778

Prepare third grade students for college and career readiness with this content-packed resource. Authored by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, this resource includes 12 units across the four content areas of language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics. Each unit incorporates close reading, paired fiction and nonfiction text passages, text-dependent questions, comparing and contrasting text, and hands-on activities to unify each week's worth of lessons. Differentiation and reciprocal teaching strategies and assessment options are also included within each unit to tailor to multiple intelligences and monitor students' progress.

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 3

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 3
Author: Lori Oczkus
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1493862294

Teach third grade students close reading strategies that strengthen their fluency and comprehension skills! Students will read and analyze various types of texts to get the most out of the rich content. Their reading skills will improve as they answer text-dependent questions, compare and contrast texts, and learn to use close reading strategies on their own! The lessons are designed to make close reading strategies accessible, interactive, grade appropriate, and fun. The lesson plans are easy to follow, and offer a practical model built on research-based comprehension and fluency strategies.

Interchange Level 3 Teacher's Edition with Assessment Audio CD/CD-ROM

Interchange Level 3 Teacher's Edition with Assessment Audio CD/CD-ROM
Author: Jack C. Richards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107615062

Interchange Fourth Edition is a fully revised edition of Interchange, the world's most successful series for adult and young-adult learners of North American English. The course has been revised to reflect the most recent approaches to language teaching and learning. It remains the innovative series teachers and students have grown to love, while incorporating suggestions from teachers and students all over the world. This edition offers updated content in every unit, grammar practice, and opportunities to develop speaking and listening skills. Interchange Fourth Edition features contemporary topics and a strong focus on both accuracy and fluency. Its successful multi-skills syllabus integrates themes, grammar, functions, vocabulary, and pronunciation. The underlying philosophy of the course remains that language is best learned when it's used for meaningful communication.

Making Connections

Making Connections
Author: Kenneth J. Pakenham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2013
Genre: College readers
ISBN: 1107650542

Making Connections teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies in order to prepare students for academic reading. Making Connections Third edition Level 3 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.

Instructional Patterns

Instructional Patterns
Author: Larry C. Holt
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780761928249

Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning examines instruction from the learners' point of view by showing how instructional patterns can be used to maximize the potential for students to learn. This book explores the interactive patterns that exist in today's classroom and demonstrates how teachers can facilitate the interactivity of these patterns to match their goals for student learning. These interactive patterns are reinforced through the incorporation of medical, cognitive, and behavioral neuroscience research.

Powerthink

Powerthink
Author: Anita Reith Stohs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1993
Genre: Critical thinking
ISBN: 9780382299261

Designed to provide cooperative learning opportunities for either small groups or pairs to help students become "third-story thinkers."

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Author: Gregory Hadley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0429596073

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons. With the proliferation of fallacious arguments, "fake news," and untrustworthy sources in today's multimedia landscape, critical thinking skills are vital not only in one’s native language, but also when engaged in the task of language learning. Written with the language teacher in mind, this book provides a springboard for teaching critical thinking skills in multicultural, multilingual classrooms. Suitable for graduate students, in-training teachers, and language curriculum developers interested in purposeful applications of critical thinking pedagogy for the second-language classroom, this volume presents classroom activities, suggestions for lesson planning, and ideas for researching the impact of critical thinking activities with second-language learners. This book is ideal as an invaluable resource for teacher-directed classroom investigations as well as graduate dissertation projects.